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How Free Trade Can Help Convert the 'Arab Spring' into Permanent Peace and Democracy
Gylfason, Thorvaldur; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; … - 2021
Eastern Partnership attempted to further political stability and economic development by liberalizing trade between the EU and … establishing political democracy and human rights in key countries. In response, the EU increased the emphasis in the ENP on … among the countries of the region as well as between each such country and the EU. Using a panel gravity model of trade …
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Much Ado about Nothing? The Role of Primary School Catchment Areas for Ethnic School Segregation. Evidence from a Policy Reform
Makles, Anna; Schneider, Kerstin - CESifo - 2013
By the 2008/09 school year the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) abolished binding school catchment areas (SCAs) in all municipalities. The reform has been controversial and it was feared that school choice would increase ethnic segregation. Using data on all primary schools, we...
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Pareto-Improving Unemployment Policies
Lingens, Jörg; Wälde, Klaus - CESifo - 2006
We investigate how continental European unemployment can be reduced without reducing unemployment benefits and without reducing the net income of low-wage earners. Lower unemployment replacement rates reduce unemployment, the net wage and unemployment benefits. A lower tax on labour increases...
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Ideological Polarization, Sticky Information, and Policy Reforms
Blumkin, Tomer; Grossmann, Volker - CESifo - 2004
We develop a dynamic two-party political economy framework, in which parties seek to maximize vote share and face the trade-off between catering to their respective core constituencies on the one hand and ‘middle of the road’ voters with no partisan affiliation on the other hand. In contrast...
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Geopolitics, Aid and Growth
Dreher, Axel; Eichenauer, Vera; Gehring, Kai - CESifo - 2013
We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Donor countries’ political motives might reduce the effectiveness of conditionality, channel aid to inferior projects or affect the way aid is spent in other ways, reduce the aid bureaucracy’s...
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The Costs of Favoritism: Is Politically-driven Aid less Effective?
Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - CESifo - 2010
As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that...
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Contract Enforcement, Institutions and Social Capital : The Maghribi Traders Reappraised
Edwards, Jeremy; Ogilvie, Sheilagh - 2021
Economists draw important lessons for modern development from the medieval Maghribi traders who, according to Greif, enforced contracts multilaterally through a closed, private-order 'coalition'. We show that this view is untenable. The Maghribis used formal legal mechanisms and entered business...
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Rogue Aid? The Determinants of China's Aid Allocation
Dreher, Axel - 2011
Foreign aid from China is often characterized as ‘rogue aid' that is not guided by recipient need but by China's national interests alone. However, no econometric study so far confronts this claim with data. We make use of various datasets, covering the 1956-2006 period, to empirically test to...
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Of Donor Coordination, Free-Riding, Darlings, and Orphans : The Dependence of Bilateral Aid on Other Bilateral Giving
Davies, Ronald B. - 2013
Using data from 1988 to 2007, we examine to what extent bilateral aid flows of an individual donor to a country depend on aid flows from all other bilateral and multilateral donors to that country. We thereby want to assess to what extent donor coordination, free-riding, selectivity,...
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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...
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