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Impact of Foreign Aid on Economic Growth in Sierra Leone: Empirical Analysis

Kargbo, Philip Michael - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012

This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on economic growth in Sierra Leone, a country where an empirical econometric study on aid effectiveness is yet to exist. Using a triangulation of approaches involving the ARDL bounds test approach and the Johansen maximum likelihood approach to...

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Diamonds, Foreign Aid, and the Uncertain Prospects for Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Sierra Leone

Grant, J. Andrew - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2005

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Is the International Community Helping to Recreate the Pre-Conditions for War in Sierra Leone?

Hanlon, Joseph - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2005

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Success when stars align: Public financial management reforms in Sierra Leone

Tavakoli, Heidi; Cessay, Ismaila; Cole, Winston - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

Since the end of the civil war, the Government of Sierra Leone has made substantial progress in strengthening public financial management. Improvements have been achieved across all aspects of the budget cycle and are particularly notable with regard to b

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Infrastructure and climate change: Impacts and adaptations for the Zambezi River Valley

Chinowsky, Paul S.; Schweikert, Amy E.; Strzepek, Niko L.; … - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

The African Development Bank has called for US$40 billion per year over the coming decades to be provided to African countries to address development issues directly related to climate change. The current study addresses a key component of these issues, t

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Infrastructure and City Competitiveness in India

Lall, Somik V.; Gun Wang, Hyoung; Deichmann, Uwe - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

Do local improvements in infrastructure provision improve city competitiveness? What public finance mechanisms … stimulate local infrastructure supply? And how do local efforts compare with national decisions of placing inter-regional trunk … infrastructure? In this paper, we examine how the combination of local and national infrastructure supply improve city …

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Getting Infrastructure Priorities Right in Post-Conflict Reconstruction

Anand, P.B. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2005

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Pacific Islands' Bilateral Trade: The Role of Remoteness and of Transport Costs

Borgatti, Lisa - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2007

Bilateral trade of geographically distant countries is likely to be negatively affected by the distance separating them from their trading partners and positively affected by their remoteness, defined as the average weighted distance between two countries with weights reflecting the absorptive...

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Convergence Club Empirics: Some Dynamics and Explanations of Unequal Growth across Indian States

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2003

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The Significance of Transport Costs in Africa

Naude, Wim; Matthee, Marianne - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2007

The success of Africa's exports, as well as its spatial development, depends on lowering transport costs. In this Policy Brief, we address a number of pertinent questions on transport costs in Africa, such as 'what are transport costs?', 'do transport costs matter for trade?', 'how important are...

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