Ocean conservation and sustainable use cannot be pursued or achieved without consideration of the planetary impacts of climate change, and particularly the role of the oceans in both mitigation and adaptation. For this reason, the international community has increasingly committed to providing...

Die aktuelle Lage in Bezug auf den Klimawandel erfordert ein entschlossenes Handeln auf der Ebene der politischen, wirtschaftlichen und persönlichen Entscheidungen. Medienbeiträge oder öffentliche Diskussionen transportieren Informationen und Meinungsbilder, die bisher weniger das...

This paper evaluates the effects of regional development aid projects from China and the World Bank on firm performance, and considers the role of supply-side constraints of the firms as channels of transmission. We find that, contrary to the World Bank, Chinese ODA projects increase firm sales,...

The construction and operation of industrial parks development projects are widely used as a major economic development strategy for most policy and decision-makers. Currently, there are 32 industrial parks in different zones, special zones and city administrations in Ethiopia. In this study,...

Can an implementation-driven analysis of project success be used as a more granular instrument for assessing the effectiveness of World Bank project By focusing on how projects perform, this paper attempts to capture variation hitherto unexplored in the aid effectiveness literature. This offers...

Ratings for the Early Childhood Development Project are as follows: Outcome was moderately unsatisfactory, Bank performance was moderately unsatisfactory, and Quality of monitoring and evaluation was modest. This assessment offers the following lessons: (1) Collaboration, strong national...