A study investigates: Did the abrupt end of USAID have an impact on violence?

Refugees carry food at a distribution center run by the World Food Programme at Kakuma Refugee Camp in Turkana, Kenya. After U.S. aid that paid for the food was curtailed, protests broke out. Andrew Kasuku/AP hide caption toggle caption Andrew Kasuku/AP Does foreign aid have an impact on violence — on wars, on street fights, on random attacks? The answer is that yes, it does — in two opposite, and perhaps counterintuitive, ways. On the one hand, aid can provide jobs and resources. …