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Does German development aid promote German exports and German employment? : a sectoral-level analysis

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas - 2013

This paper uses an augmented gravity model of trade to investigate the link between German development aid and sectoral exports from Germany to the aid recipient countries. The findings indicate that in the long run each dollar of German aid is associated with an average increase of 0.83 US...

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Does German development aid promote German exports?

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas - 2008

This paper uses a static and dynamic gravity model of trade to investigate the link between German development aid and exports from Germany to the recipient countries. The findings indicate that in the long run,German aid is associated with an increase in exports of goods that is larger than the...

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Aid and trade : a donorś perspective

Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2008

Foreign aid is given for a combination of economic, political, and humanitarian motives. While its impact on economic development in recipient countries has been the main focus of research recently, we concentrate on the question to what extent it also promotes donor countries’ exports. We...

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Foreign aid and recipient countries' exports : does aid promote bilateral trade?/ Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann D., Inmaculada Martinez-Zarzoso, Adriana Cardozo, Dierk Herzer and Stephan...

Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2010

an expansion of exports in different regions of the world. It is found that aid is strongly export-enhancing in Asia and …

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Inequality in human development : an empirical assessment of thirty-two countries

Grimm, Michael; Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan; … - 2008

One of the most frequent critiques of the HDI is that it does not take into account inequality within countries in its three dimensions. We use a simple approach, which allows to compute the three components and the overall HDI for quintiles of the income distribution. This allows to compare the...

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The construction of the social institutions and gender index (SIGI)

Branisa Caballero, Boris Sergio; Klasen, Stephan; … - 2009

In this paper we construct the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) using variables of the OECD Gender, Institutions and Development database. Instead of measuring gender inequalities in education, health, economic or political participation, the SIGI allows a new perspective on gender...

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Reforming the Gender-Related Index (GDI) and the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) : some specific proposals

Klasen, Stephan; Schüler, Dana - 2009

In 2005 and 2006, the Human Development Report Office undertook a review of UNDP's gender-related indicators, particularly the Gender-Related Development Index (GDI) and the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM). Background papers as well as the results of the process were published in 2006 (e.g....

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Growth, inequality, and well-being : intertemporal and global comparisons

Grün, Carola; Klasen, Stephan - 2003

. Our global analysis covering ca. 81 per cent of the world s population demonstrates that global well-being is at least 50 … per cent smaller than world per capita income if the unequal income distribution is also factored in. Conversely, growth … in world well-being has been larger than world income growth between 1970-1998. Since the inclusion of inequality has an …

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Growth, inequality, and well-being : comparisons across space and time

Grün, Carola; Klasen, Stephan - 2003

We use several well-being measures that combine average income with a measure of inequality to undertake international, intertemporal, and global comparisons of well-being. The conclusions emerging from the analysis are that our well-being measures drastically change our impression of levels of...

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The aid-income link revisited : how plausible and robust are the results?

Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2014

This study provides a re-examination of the aid-income link based on a panel data set which is downloadable at the Canadian Journal of Economics 45(1), 2012 issue. Longer time series data are available for a group of 58 countries and run from 1960 to 2007. In particular, the study aims at...

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