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Prospective NATO or EU Membership and Institutional Change in Transition Countries
Belke, Ansgar; Bordon, Ingo; Melnykovska, Inna; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
we show that pre-accession incentives provided by EU and NATO clearly matter for institutional development. In addition … institutional development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008517981
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The Costs of Favoritism: Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?
Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529139
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Making Aid Work: Governance and Decentralization
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort into having an effect. A department may come into conflict with other departments because of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011094074
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Good Governance and Good Aid Allocation
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
receiving countries prefer that each country obtains the proportion of aid relative to its governance quality. If poverty … reduction is an independent goal as well, a poverty trap may be created. With good governance as a criterion, donors may work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566444
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The Effects of Development on Migration: Theoretical Issues and New Empirical Evidence
Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been … discussed which hint at the possibility that progress in development of less developed regions might lead to more migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763812
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Fertility in Sub-Saharan African Countries with Consideration to Health and Poverty
Jeon, Yongil; Rhyu, Sang-Young; Shields, Michael P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Fertility has begun to fall in Sub-Saharan Africa but it remains high on average and particularly for a few countries … random country effect estimates are made in models where the explanatory variables are suggested by the theory of the … poverty level, and the health of the population including total health expenditures and the prevalence of HIV/AIDS. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822444
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Aid, Growth, and Jobs
Fields, Gary S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of … poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and … services they need to move up out of poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010778775
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Testing an EU-Candidate's Place on the Maps of Global Economic, Political and Social Values: The Case of Turkey
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
new Global Value Development Index, which combines: avoiding economic permissiveness; avoiding racism; avoiding distrust … value development index ranks Morocco twelfth – just behind the USA. Turkey is ranked 25, ahead of several EU member …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764609
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Surviving the Turbulence Is Not Enough: Can Côte d'Ivoire Flourish Again?
Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
domestic economy, but it will also affect the international trading markets. In addition, it will affect the West Africa region …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294829
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How Large Is the Private Sector in Africa? Evidence from National Accounts and Labor Markets
Stampini, Marco; Leung, Ron; Diarra, Setou M.; Pla, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In recent years, the private sector has been recognized as a key engine of Africa's economic development. Yet, the most … sector countries are concentrated in Western Africa (Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, Niger, Senegal and Togo), Central Africa … (Cameroun, Republic of Congo) and Eastern Africa (Kenya, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania), with the addition of Mauritius. Countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416934