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The future of development aid in a globalizing world with climate change
Hübler, Michael - 2014 - December 2014
This essay reviews the state of knowledge about the connection of climate change and development aid in a globalizing world and makes three contributions. First, it opts for an integrated treatment of short-term aid, striving for the urgent fulfillment of basic human needs, and long-term aid,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531347
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The persistent consequences of civil conflict : evidence from a new measure for subnational conflict exposure
Korn, Tobias - 2023 - This version: August 11, 2023
This paper presents a novel approach to accounting for subnational conflict exposure and provides new insights into the … causal medium-run effects of conflict on economic development. The existing literature has not reached a consensus on whether … civil conflict can permanently alter economic growth trajectories. This study identifies the source of this disagreement as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014366855
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Assessing the allocation of aid: developmental concerns and the self-interest of donors
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, … - In: The Indian economic journal 54 (2006) 1, pp. 26-51
within the group of multilateral donors. Post-conflict resolution, the third altruistic motive considered in the paper …
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Your pain, my gain? : estimating the trade relocation effects from civil conflict
Korn, Tobias; Stemmler, Henry - 2022 - This version: March 25, 2022
conflict. This trade relocation persists after the resolution of a conflict. As a potential explanation for the longevity of … between a conflict country and an exporter-importer pair into an estimable dyadic relationship. Our estimation approach can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013167613
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Peaks vs. components
Vollmer, Sebastian; Holzmann, Hajo; Weisbrod, Julian - 2010
We analyze the cross-national distribution of GDP per capita and its evolution from 1970 to 2003. We argue that peaks are not a suitable measure for distinct growth regimes, because the number of peaks is not invariant under strictly monotonic transformations of the data (e.g. original vs. log...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008907002
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Degrees of development : how geographic latitude sets the pace of industrialization and demographic change
Strulik, Holger (contributor) - 2008
Successful economic development is usually characterized by two salient phenomena: industrialization and demographic transition. Chronologically both events happen so closely to each other that historians and economists alike suspect that they are interrelated. This paper develops a theory for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003612619
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A theory-based discussion of international technology funding
Hübler, Michael - 2014 - April 2014
Climate policy negotiations identi ed international technology funding as a means of achieving carbon emissions reductions in developing countries. Such funds are now being realized. This paper is probably the first theory-based discussion of international technology funding. It sets up a Ramsey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531349
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Religiosity as a determinant of happiness
Gundlach, Erich; Opfinger, Matthias - 2011
We find a U-shaped relation between happiness and religiosity in cross-country panel data after controlling for income levels. At a given level of income, the same level of happiness can be reached with high and low levels of religiosity, but not with intermediate levels. A rise in income causes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008909543
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Assessing the allocation of aid : developmental concerns and the self-interest of donors
Canavire, Gustavo; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer; … - In: The Indian economic journal 54 (2006) 1, pp. 26-51
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