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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464285
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The economic consequences of demographic change in East Asia : [NBER East Asia Seminar on Economics, volume 19 ; selection of papers presented at the 19th Annual East Asian Seminar...
Itō, Takatoshi (contributor); Rose, Andrew (contributor) - 2010
-Chun Liu, Chulhee Lee -- Japan's unprecedented aging and changing intergenerational transfers / Naohiro Ogawa, Andrew Mason …, Amonthep Chawla, and Rikiya Matsukura ; comments: Worawan Chandoevwit, Alejandro N. Herrin -- Pension issues in Japan: how can … of demographic change on public education in Japan / Fumio Ohtake and Shinpei Sano ; comments: Dae Il Lim, Chang …
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Capital controls and capital flows in emerging economics : policies, practices and consequences
Edwards, Sebastian (ed.) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013480755
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Do Corrupt Governments Receive Less Foreign Aid?
Alesina, Alberto - 1999
Critics of foreign aid programs argue that these funds often support corrupt governments and inefficient bureaucracies. Supporters argue that foreign aid can be used to reward good governments. This paper documents that there is no evidence that less corrupt governments receive more foreign aid....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471686
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Long Run Effects of Aid : Forecasts and Evidence from Sierra Leone
Casey, Katherine; Glennerster, Rachel; Miguel, Edward; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We evaluate the long-run effects of a decentralized approach to economic development, called community driven development (CDD), a prominent strategy for delivering foreign aid. Notably we revisit a randomized CDD program in Sierra Leone 11 years after launch. We estimate large persistent gains...
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Assistance to the Poor in a Federal System
Brown, Charles - 1985
This paper explores the roles of different levels of government in assisting the poor. Using a model with utility interdependence, the paper presents some theoretical results on how levels of poor relief vary with the extent of mobility of the poor under both centralized and decentralized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477364
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Optimal Financial Aid Policies for a Selective University
Ehrenberg, Ronald G. - 1982
Recent federal cut-backs of financial support for undergraduates have worsened the financial position of colleges and universities and required them to debate how they will allocate their scarce financial aid resources.Our paper contributes to the debate by providing a model of optimal financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478091
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Coming out in America : AIDS, Politics, and Cultural Change
Fernández, Raquel - 2019
The last few decades witnessed a dramatic change in public opinion towards gay people. This paper studies the hypothesis that the AIDS epidemic was a shock that changed the incentive to "come out" and that the ensuing process of mobilization and endogenous political process led to cultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479648