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Why it pays for aid recipients to take note of the Millennium Challenge Corporation : other donors do!

Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2010

It is widely believed that the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has grossly fallen short of high expectations raised by the Bush administration in 2002. From the perspective of potential recipient countries, the crucial issue is whether the MCC increased the overall pool of aid resources...

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Shooting the messenger of good news : a critical look at the World Bank's success story of effective aid

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2002

In a report presented at the UN Conference on Financing for Development in March 2002, the World Bank claims that the … policies. However, the World Bank's success story rests on an extremely weak foundation: First, the institution's contribution … the distribution of World Bank financing. Second, the picture portrayed in the report takes a bad turn if only two …

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Sectoral aid priorities : are donors really doing their best to achieve the millennium development goals?

Thiele, Rainer - 2006

We analyze the aid portfolio of various bilateral and multilateral donors, testing whether they have prioritised aid in line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In doing so, we combine sectorally disaggregated aid data with indicators reflecting the situation of recipient countries...

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Does aid for education educate children? : Evidence from panel data

Dreher, Axel (contributor); Nunnenkamp, Peter (contributor); … - 2006

This paper empirically analyzes the impact of aid on education for about 100 countries over the period 1970-2005. We estimate a system of equations to test whether and to what extent the impact of sector-specific aid on educational attainment depends on (i) the extent to which aid adds to...

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Is foreign aid concentrated increasingly on needy and deserving recipient countries? : an analysis of Theil indices, 1995-2015

Bickenbach, Frank; Mbelu, Asithandile; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2017

By tracking the changes in different margins of Theil indices during the period 1995-2015, we re-consider the question of whether bilateral and multilateral donors have targeted aid increasingly to particularly needy recipient countries with relatively good governance in order to improve the...

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Scarcity nationalism during COVID-19 : identifying the impact on trade costs

Egger, Peter; Masllorens, Gerard; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, … - In: Economics letters 223 (2023), pp. 1-4

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Shifts in the inflation target and communication of central bank forecasts

Tesfaselassie, Mewael F. (contributor) - 2007

In a model with forward-looking expectations, the paper examines communication of central bank forecasts when the inflation target is subject to unobserved changes. It characterizes the effect of disclosure of forecasts on inflation and output stabilization and the choice of an active versus...

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The relationship between parameters within a latent variable framework

Heckman, James J.; Vytlacil, Edward - In: Economics letters 66 (2000) 1, pp. 33-39

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Evaluating Marginal Policy Changes and the Average Effect of Treatment for Individuals at the Margin

Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2010

This paper develops methods for evaluating marginal policy changes. We characterize how the effects of marginal policy changes depend on the direction of the policy change, and show that marginal policy effects are fundamentally easier to identify and to estimate than conventional treatment...

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Understanding Instrumental Variables in Models with Essential Heterogeneity

Heckman, James J. - 2007

This paper examines the properties of instrumental variables (IV) applied to models with essential heterogeneity, that is, models where responses to interventions are heterogeneous and agents adopt treatments (participate in programs) with at least partial knowledge of their idiosyncratic...

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