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Where imports are financed predominantly by rents from resource extraction or aid, the revenue generated by tariffs is … illusory. Revenue earned by the tariff is offset by a reduction in the real value of aid and resource rents. Revenue is however … moved between accounts in the government budget, which, in the case of aid, may reduce the burden of donor conditionality …
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The paper surveys the interactions between aid and trade, distinguishing between policies and outcomes as well as … between various instruments. It first discusses the theoretical literature, focusing on the causal impact of aid on the …
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The response of an economy to a windfall of foreign exchange (be it aid or natural resource revenues) is often …
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In 'Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia,' Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an apparent puzzle: they claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development Index (HDI), but relatively poorly in happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with...
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Using a model of probabilistic voting, we analyse the impact of aid on the political equilibrium in the recipient … aid on the political equilibrium and therefore on the quality of the policy (using the utilitarian social welfare as a … quality by aid can help to explain the poor performance of conditionality in improving policy. Perhaps more surprising is the …
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that they give only marginal trade preference to the CEECs. The paper also considers FDI and aid flows and argues that …
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The paper develops the view that the perspective on the HIPC initiative is distorted by the fact that – contrary to the Brady deal itself – it lacks all perspective on the ‘market value’ of the debt which is written down. The appropriate ‘market value’ is one that takes account of...
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We construct an open economy disequilibrium model to assess the welfare effects of aid in different macroeconomic … regimes. Aid is shown to have different effects in different unemployment regimes because it increases the social costs of …
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Long-run trends in Africa’s well-being are provided on the basis of a new index of human development, alternative to the UNDP’s HDI. A sustained improvement in African human development is found that falls, nonetheless, short of those experienced in other developing regions. Within Africa,...
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The pessimistic flavour of the Human Development Reports appears to be in contradiction with their own numbers as developing countries fare comparatively better in human development than in per capita GDP terms. This paper attempts to bridge this gap by providing a new, ‘improved’ human...
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