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Decentralization and Foreign Aid Effectiveness : Do Aid Modality and Federal Design Matter in Poverty Alleviation?
Lessmann, Christian - 2014
This paper empirically studies the impact of decentralization on foreign aid effectiveness. For this purpose, we examine a commonly used empirical growth model, considering aid modality as well as different measures of political and fiscal decentralization. Our panel estimations reveal that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069925
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Aid, Growth and Devolution
Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2021
This paper examines whether the federal structure of aid-receiving countries matters in explaining aid effectiveness. Following the decentralization theorem, the devolution of powers should increase aid effectiveness, since local decision-makers are better informed about local needs. At the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316311
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Trends and Patterns of Growth, Development, Achievements of China and India : A Comparative Analysis
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2016
unprecedented growth and economic development — PRC and India became the second and fourth largest economies of the world … share several common characteristics, prospects and challenges. However, their approaches to growth and development as well …, strategies, reforms and market conditions that contributed to the rapid growth and development of the PRC and India which can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995197
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Aid, Growth and Devolution
Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - CESifo - 2009
This paper examines whether the federal structure of aid-receiving countries matters in explaining aid effectiveness. Following the decentralization theorem, the devolution of powers should increase aid effectiveness, since local decision-makers are better informed about local needs. At the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572557
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Decentralization and Foreign Aid Effectiveness: Do Aid Modality and Federal Design Matter in Poverty Alleviation?
Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - CESifo - 2010
This paper empirically studies the impact of decentralization on foreign aid effectiveness. For this purpose, we examine a commonly used empirical growth model, considering aid modality as well as different measures of political and fiscal decentralization. Our panel estimations reveal that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572584
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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - CESifo - 2015
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically that geographical variations in the natural return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on the distribution of time preference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167137
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Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle - CESifo - 2014
necessarily mean that giving money to women is a good development policy. We show that depending on the nature of the production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747224
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Robust Growth Determinants
Doppelhofer, Gernot - 2011
This paper investigates the robustness of determinants of economic growth in the presence of model uncertainty, parameter heterogeneity and outliers. The robust model averaging approach introduced in the paper uses a flexible and parsimonious mixture modeling that allows for fat-tailed errors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129859
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Debt Relief and Good Governance : New Evidence
Freytag, Andreas - 2017
Since the introduction of the HIPC Initiative in the early 2000s, indebted LICs had to show a decent governance performance before their debts were forgiven. We discuss the hypothesis that during the follow-up, Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI), the World Bank has refrained from this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960471
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Resource Rents, Power, and Political Stability
Bjorvatn, Kjetil - 2014
We study the association between resource rents and political stability, highlighting the importance of the distribution of political power as a mediating factor. We present a simple theoretical model showing that increased rents are likely to be positively associated with the stability of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054959