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After the Second World War, both Greece and Italy experienced a Left-Right political polarization and a reproduction of … earlier patterns of political patronage. Both Italy and Greece received international aid, including emergency relief, interim … and had achieved industrial growth faster than Greece. Italy progressed quite rapidly from stabilization to reconstruction …
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allocation, we estimate the determinants of Italy's bilateral aid. We use three groups of explanatory variables, reflecting …
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The Marshall Plan (1948–1952) was the largest aid transfer in history. This paper estimates its effects on Italy …
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In this paper, we address the question of whether official development assistance promotes gender equality in the Middle East and North Africa region by examining the effects of aid to Women's Equality Organizations and Institutions on women's political empowerment, measured by the proportion of...
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Aid co-ordination is a constant theme of discussion among national and international aid agencies in their search for more effectiveness and efficiency in delivering development assistance. This paper seeks to clarify some of the arguments currently made in support of aid co-ordination, and to...
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The paper develops a two-region endogenous growth model with climate change affecting the countries' capital stocks negatively. We compare two different policies aimed at supporting less developed countries: climate mitigation by rich countries, which diminishes the increase in stock pollution...
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In this paper we discuss aid and the environment in Ghana. Our analysis indicates that expenditure by the government of Ghana has increased consistently since 2000, with seven sectors weakly linked to the environment taking about 78.9 per cent of all government expenditure. Also, the rate of...
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