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Global poverty, aid, and middle-income countries : are the country classifications moribund or is global poverty in the process of 'nationalizing'?
Sumner, Andrew - 2013
The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary … first is that the thresholds used to classify countries by the World Bank and extensively used by aid agencies, albeit with …
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Geography, economics, and power : global assessments of development with geo-referenced Data
Cruzatti, John - 2021
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Where has all the money gone? : Foreign aid and the quest for growth
Chatterjee, Santanu (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper examines fungibility as a possible explanation for the "missing link" between foreign aid and economic growth. The composition of aid plays a crucial role in determining the composition of government spending and, consequently, the magnitude of fungibility and its impact on growth....
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Country classifications for a changing world
Harris, Dan; Moore, Mick; Schmitz, Hubert - 2009
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A hundred key questions for the post-2015 development agenda
2015
the thematic priorities that guided the "World We Want" campaign—a global stakeholder consultation conducted by the UN … discussed and shortlisted during a two-day workshop with academic and practitioners representing different world regions and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485119
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Institutional learning and change in the CGIAR : summary record of the workshop held at IFPRI, Washington, DC, February 4 - 6, 2003
Mackay, Ronald (contributor) - 2003
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Development aid and growth in transition economies
Askarov, Zohid; Doucouliagos, Chris - 2014
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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....
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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, foreign aid should not orient developing countries towards industrialisation in the perspective of Kuznets but in the view of Piketty. Abandoning the former's view that inequality...
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