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Whither the World Bank and the IMF?
Krueger, Anne O. - 1997
On their fiftieth anniversary, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were" extensively reviewed, both to mark the occasion and to consider, often critically roles and performance. This paper reviews the functions of the two institutions in light of their" evolution over the past...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472488
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Why is there Multilateral Lending?
Rodrik, Dani - 1995
Why should multilateral lending exist in a world where private capital markets are well developed and governments have their own bilateral aid programs? If lending by the World Bank, IMF, and regional development banks has an independent rationale, it must rest on advantages generated by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473722
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Deputization
Carlin, Bruce I. - 2020
A policy of deputization asks agents to monitor others without providing explicit incentives. It is often used to prevent dangerous activities. To calibrate whether and why it works, we study recent laws that deputized financial professionals to help fight elder financial abuse. We show...
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Hou, Kewei - 2018
In a multiperiod investment framework, firms with high expected growth earn higher expected returns than firms with low expected growth, holding investment and expected profitability constant. This paper forms cross-sectional growth forecasts, and constructs an expected growth factor that yields...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453011
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AGOA Rules : The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Special Fabric Provisions
Edwards, Lawrence - 2010
But the disappointments can also be attributed to the preferences because they discouraged additional value-addition in assembly and stimulated the use of expensive fabrics that were unlikely to be produced locally. When the MFA was removed, constrained countries such as China moved strongly...
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The Determinants of Food Aid Provisions to Africa and the Developing World
Nunn, Nathan - 2010
We examine the supply-side and demand-side determinants of global bilateral food aid shipments between 1971 and 2008. First, we find that domestic food production in developing countries is negatively correlated with subsequent food aid receipts, suggesting that food aid receipt is partly driven...
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Can the West Save Africa?
Easterly, William - 2008
In the new millennium, the Western aid effort towards Africa has surged due to writings by well-known economists, a … celebrity mass advocacy campaign, and decisions by Western leaders to make Africa a major foreign policy priority. This survey … contrasts the predominant "transformational" approach (West saves Africa) to occasional swings to a "marginal" approach (West …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464285
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Trade Growth under the African Growth and Opportunity Act
Frazer, Garth - 2007
This paper explores whether one of the most important U.S. policies towards Africa of the past few decades achieved its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465432
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Return on Returns : Building Scientific Capacity in AIDS Endemic Countries
Fry, Caroline; Ganguli, Ina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We estimate spillovers from public funding for health research in the context of the NIH's Fogarty International Center's AIDS International Training and Research Program, which aims to strengthen scientific capacity in AIDS endemic countries by providing African researchers with training...
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The IMF in a World of Private Capital Markets
Eichengreen, Barry - 2005
The IMF attempts to stabilize private capital flows to emerging markets by providing public monitoring and emergency finance. In analyzing its role we contrast cases where banks and bondholders do the lending. Banks have a natural advantage in monitoring and creditor coordination, while bonds...
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