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African agency and EU- African Economic Partnership Agreements
Kohnert, Dirk - 2014
This article provides a review of literature on African Agency and the drivers of change within EU–African trade politics in negotiations on Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union and African governments.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334764
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Aid and development in Taiwan, South Korea, and South Vietnam
Gray, Kevin J. - 2013
. Whilst US aid has correctly been cited as key factor in explaining the rapid post-war development of South Korea and Taiwan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009790673
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Aid and environment in Africa : the case of Tanzania
Kahyarara, Godius - 2014
development partners, introduced the Tanzania Joint Assistance Strategy. This resulted in an improvement in the country …'s operational development strategies and by 2010 out of 13 indicators with applicable targets, six were met. The paper concludes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338141
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Does female empowerment promote economic development?
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michele - 2014
necessarily mean that giving money to women is a good development policy. We show that depending on the nature of the production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250142
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Does development reduce migration?
Clemens, Michael A. - 2014
development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010423766
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Is the threat of foreign aid withdrawal an effective deterrent to political oppression? : evidence from 53 African countries
Asongu, Simplice A.; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016
This study complements existing literature on the aid-institutions nexus by focusing on political rights, aid volatilities and the post-Berlin Wall period. The findings show that while foreign aid does not have a significant effect on political rights, foreign aid volatilities do mitigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011496393
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Trade, aid and terror
Asongu, Simplice A.; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2015
This study assesses the role of foreign aid in reducing the hypothetically negative impact of terrorism on trade using a panel of 78 developing countries with data for the period 1984-2008. The empirical evidence is based on interactive GMM estimations with forward orthogonal deviations....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408402
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Foreign aid volatility and lifelong learning: demand-side empirics to a textual literature
Asongu, Simplice A.; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2015
development through lifelong learning and knowledge economy as a competitive advantage. This may also explain why countries which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408497
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On the dynamic effects of foreign aid on corruption
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
We assemble more pieces on the puzzle of the aid-corruption nexus. In essence, we extend the debate on the effect of foreign aid on corruption by providing evidence on dynamic effects of wealth, legal origin, religious-domination, regional proximity, openness to sea, natural resources and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408498
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Reinventing foreign aid for inclusive and sustainable development : Kuznets, Piketty and the great policy reversal
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2015
This survey essay reviews over 200 papers in arguing that in order to achieve sustainable and inclusive development … on inequality in foreign aid policy will lead to more sustainable development outcomes. Inter alia: mitigate short …-term poverty; address concerns of burgeoning population growth; train recipient governments on inclusive development; fight …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408850