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foreign aid received by a HIPC country. Second, have HIPCs and non-HIPCs experienced reductions in aid inflows (other than …-HIPC countries persist throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, with higher levels of aid going to HIPC countries. Third, have the debt … literature, my results suggest that aid flows have not changed significantly in response to debt relief. …
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) aid that affects growth only over the long term, if at all, such as aid to support democracy, the environment, health, or …Past research on aid and growth is flawed because it typically examines the impact of aggregate aid on growth over a … short period, usually four years, while significant portions of aid are unlikely to affect growth in such a brief time. We …
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Public opinion surveys conducted since 1977 in Japan are usually interpreted as showing decreasing support among the Japanese population for Official Development Assistance (ODA), and possibly, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Cabinet Office of Japan have justified recent cuts in ODA...
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We examine both grants and net loans made to low income countries during the last two decades to understand the main reasons that motivated the behaviour of both donors and creditors. We find that the total amount of transfers to HIPCs, as compared to non-HIPCs, have been increasing with their...
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Donors who try to impose policy conditionality on countries receiving their aid commonly face conflicting incentives … between using aid to induce income-increasing reforms and using aid to assist low-income countries: this conflict can lead to …-conditionality outcome.However, even when conditionality is successfully imposed by donors, there may be an inverse relationship between aid …
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the top) and more beneficiaries (at the bottom), NGOs working in Humanitarian Aid and Social Development increasingly need … of a responsible, cooperative and participative NGO from a KM perspective, in order to promote the growth of Communities …
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'Development Aid: Are We Showing More Solidarity ? This paper provides a summary of the recent evolution of development … aid. First, it studies the global size of aid and some quality indicators: the proportion of untied aid, multilateral aid … and grants in aid. The paper also explores the new types of aid linked to the concept of 'world public goods': this …
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The aim of this paper is to test if electoral systems and human development are linked. Using high quality data and very simple panel data econometric techniques, we show that electoral systems play a critical role in explaining the difference in the levels of human development between...
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La formación de Capital social es un factor clave para el desarrollo de programas y proyectos dirigidos a la superación de la pobreza. La investigación hace explícitos los factores asociados a la generación de capital social en un proyecto de desarrollo llevado a cabo en un barrio pobre de...
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The objective of this study is to bring out the case of poverty, undernourishment and health conditions of casual labourers in Shillong, the capital city of Meghalaya, India. Casual labourers are those workers who work for a very short duration (for a few hours, a day or at most a few days under...
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