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education is an effective means to increase FDI flows to host countries in Latin America where schooling and education appears … countries over the period from 1984 to 2008. We find that aid for education has a statistically significant positive effect on …
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Global governance refers to several pillars; one important pillar is the multilateral aid architecture. Its reform can be discussed under the perspectives of representativeness, inclusiveness, and efficiency (of aid delivery).A prerequisite for efficient aid delivery is to map the rising...
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the political ideology of both governments along the left-right spectrum in augmented models on the economic growth …
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other MDGs, most notably primary education, there is a considerable gap between donor rhetoric and actual aid allocation …
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other MDGs, most notably primary education, there is a considerable gap between donor rhetoric and actual aid allocation …
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other MDGs, most notably primary education, there is a considerable gap between donor rhetoric and actual aid allocation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755164
This paper analyzes whether and to what extent non-governmental organizations (NGOs) outperform official donors by allocating aid in a way that renders effective poverty alleviation more likely. We employ Probit and Tobit models and make use of an exceptionally detailed database that allows an...
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broader measure of human capital that accounts for international differences in the quality of education. Our findings suggest … that more quality-adjusted education does increase the income of the poor in addition to its positive effect on average … income. Hence effective education policies should be an essential component of any poverty-reduction strategy. …
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This paper examines the long-run effect of foreign aid on income inequality for 21 recipient countries using panel cointegration techniques to control for omitted variable and endogeneity bias. We find that aid exerts an inequality increasing effect on income distribution
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What determines the foreign aid effort of donor countries? We review the existing literature on donors’ aid budgets and examine which of the suggested variables robustly determine aid effort, measured as Official Development Assistance (ODA) as a share of gross national income. More...
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