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Sectoral aid priorities : are donors really doing their best to achieve the millennium development goals?

Thiele, Rainer - 2006

We analyze the aid portfolio of various bilateral and multilateral donors, testing whether they have prioritised aid in line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In doing so, we combine sectorally disaggregated aid data with indicators reflecting the situation of recipient countries...

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Assessing the allocation of aid : developmental concerns and the self-interest of donors

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer; Triveño, Luis; … - 2005

In this paper, we perform a Tobit analysis of aid allocation, covering the period 1999-2002 and accounting for both altruistic and selfish donor motives. It turns out that poorer countries get clearly more aid from both bilateral and multilateral donors. Most donors are also found to direct...

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Social policy in economic development : the case of health and old age insurance

Thiele, Rainer - 1997

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Institutions and trade policy

Finger, J. M. - 2002

analytical thinking behind positions taken by these agencies on major issues in international trade policy: e.g., the shift of … treatment' to today's view that they should aggressively exploit opportunities that international trade offers. Other essays … report analytical work at the US Treasury Department on proposals in the 1970s for a 'New International Economic Order …

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