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The political economy of multilateral aid funds
Simon, Jenny; Valasek, Justin - 2016
In 2014 over $60 billion was mobilized to help developing nations mitigate climate change, an amount equivalent to the GDP of Kenya. Interestingly, breaking from the traditional model of bilateral aid, donor countries distributed nearly fifty percent of their aid through multilateral aid funds...
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What drives the global land rush?
Arezki, Rabah; Deininger, Klaus W.; Selod, Harris - 2011
This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture. To do so, gravity models are estimated using data on bilateral investment relationships, together with newly constructed indicators of agro-ecological suitability in areas with low population density as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009387247
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Climate mitigation policy in Denmark : a prototype for other countries
Batini, Nicoletta; Parry, Ian W. H.; Wingender, Philippe - 2021
Denmark has a highly ambitious goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 70 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. While … there is general agreement that carbon pricing should be the centerpiece of Denmark’s mitigation strategy, pricing needs to … strategy Denmark develops can be a good prototype for others to follow. This paper discusses mechanisms to scale up domestic …
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Can cross-border pollution reduce pollution?
Hatzipanayotou, Panos; Lahiri, Sajal; Michael, Michael S. - 2000
We develop a North-South model of foreign aid and cross-border pollution resulting from production activities in the recipient country. There is both private and public abatement of pollution, the latter being financed through emissions tax revenue and foreign aid. We characterise a Nash...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781641
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First impressions : how leader changes affect bilateral aid
Rommel, Tobias; Schaudt, Paul - 2016
We present a new mechanism to explain politically induced changes in bilateral aid. We argue that shifts in the foreign policy alignment between a donor and a recipient country arising from leadership changes induce reallocation of development aid. Utilizing data from the G7 and 133 developing...
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Debt relief and good governance : new evidence
Freytag, Andreas; Pettersson, Jonatan; Schmied, Julian - 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...
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Improving the availability of trade finance in developing countries : an assessment of remaining gaps
Auboin, Marc - 2016
While conditions in trade finance markets returned to normality in the main routes of trade, the structural difficulties of poor countries in accessing trade finance have not disappeared - and might have been worsened during and after the global financial crisis. In fact, there is a consistent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434595
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Aid, growth and devolution
Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 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/10003887528
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Aid and growth : new evidence using an excludable instrument
Dreher, Axel; Langlotz, Sarah - 2015
We use an excludable instrument to test the effect of foreign aid on economic growth in a sample of 96 recipient countries over the 1974-2009 period. We interact donor government fractionalization with a recipient country's probability of receiving aid. The results show that fractionalization...
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Donor ideology and types of foreign aid
Brech, Viktor; Potrafke, Niklas - 2013
We examine how donor government ideology influences the composition of foreign aid flows. We use data for 23 OECD countries over the period 1960]2009 and distinguish between multilateral and bilateral aid, grants and loans, recipient characteristics such as income and political institutions,...
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