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Where imports are financed predominantly by rents from resource extraction or aid, the revenue generated by tariffs is … illusory. Revenue earned by the tariff is offset by a reduction in the real value of aid and resource rents. Revenue is however … moved between accounts in the government budget, which, in the case of aid, may reduce the burden of donor conditionality …
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The paper surveys the interactions between aid and trade, distinguishing between policies and outcomes as well as … between various instruments. It first discusses the theoretical literature, focusing on the causal impact of aid on the …
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The response of an economy to a windfall of foreign exchange (be it aid or natural resource revenues) is often …
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In 'Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia,' Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an apparent puzzle: they claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development Index (HDI), but relatively poorly in happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with...
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In “Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia,” Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an apparent puzzle: they claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development Index (HDI), but relatively poorly in happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032820
that they give only marginal trade preference to the CEECs. The paper also considers FDI and aid flows and argues that …
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The paper develops the view that the perspective on the HIPC initiative is distorted by the fact that – contrary to the Brady deal itself – it lacks all perspective on the ‘market value’ of the debt which is written down. The appropriate ‘market value’ is one that takes account of...
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Using a model of probabilistic voting, we analyse the impact of aid on the political equilibrium in the recipient … aid on the political equilibrium and therefore on the quality of the policy (using the utilitarian social welfare as a … quality by aid can help to explain the poor performance of conditionality in improving policy. Perhaps more surprising is the …
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We construct an open economy disequilibrium model to assess the welfare effects of aid in different macroeconomic … regimes. Aid is shown to have different effects in different unemployment regimes because it increases the social costs of …
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Long-run trends in Africa’s well-being are provided on the basis of a new index of human development, alternative to the UNDP’s HDI. A sustained improvement in African human development is found that falls, nonetheless, short of those experienced in other developing regions. Within Africa,...
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