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Aid in Transition : EU Development Cooperation with Russia and Eurasia

Grigoriadis, Theocharis N. - 2015

Eurasia. EU development aid provided a set of reform incentives to post-Soviet planners. It created the grounds for the … Economics and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. Aid in Transition: EU Development Cooperation with Russia … EU assistance to the European and Eurasian transition economies. The author finds that strong institutions of civil …

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European Development Cooperation and the Poor

Cox, Aidan; Healey, John; Hoebink, Paul; Voipio, Timo - 2000

What are the poverty reduction goals of the European development cooperation agencies? This book examines the credibility of their actual record in terms of their commitment and approaches to poverty reduction. The poverty impact of their aid programmes and their good and bad practices are...

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Moral hazard and the composition of transfers : theory with an application to foreign aid

Amegashie, J. Atsu (contributor); … - 2007

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Decentralization and foreign aid effectiveness : do aid modality and federal design matter in poverty alleviation?

Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 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...

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Of donor coordination, free-riding, darlings, and orphans : the dependence of bilateral aid on other bilateral giving

Davies, Ronald B.; Klasen, Stephan - 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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Does female empowerment promote economic development?

Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michele - 2014

Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to fathers) increases expenditures on children. From this, should we infer that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? In this paper, we develop a non-cooperative model of household decision making to...

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Do foreign aid transfers distort incentives and hurt growth? : theory and evidence from 75 aid-recipient countries

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Kalyvitēs, Sarantēs; … - 2004

In this paper, foreign aid transfers can distort individual incentives, and hence hurt growth, by encouraging rent-seeking as opposed to productive activities. We construct a model of a small growing open economy that distinguishes two effects from foreign transfers: (i) a direct positive...

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Agglomeration and aid

Brakman, Steven (contributor); Garretsen, Harry (contributor) - 2006

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The political economy of opposition groups : peace, terrorism, or civil conflict?

Jetter, Michael; Li, Bei - 2017

This paper proposes a simple framework to better understand an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open civil conflict against the government. Our model implies that terrorism emerges if constraints on the ruling executive group are intermediate and rents are sizeable, hereas...

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AIDS and Aid : A Public Good Approach

Sonntag, Diana - 2010

The Challenge: A Transnational Response to HIV/AIDS -- Profiling the Provision Status of Health-Promoting Public Goods Against AIDS -- International Transfers -- Regional Constraints and HIV/AIDS -- Summary and Concluding Remarks

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