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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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Religion and growth
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023
—together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue that … religion can enhance or impinge upon economic growth through all four elements because it shapes individual preferences … development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …
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Fickle fossils : economic growth, coal and the European oil invasion, 1900-2015
Fritzsche, Miriam; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2023
analyse the effect of both, coal and oil on economic growth between 1900 and 2015, exploiting variation at the level of …
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Assessment of German-Pakistani relations in trade, investment and strategic cooperation
Mahmood, Talat - 2014
German-Pakistani relations cannot be analyzed in isolation of the larger domestic and international trajectories, economic and political, on both sides of the partnership. After a recent democratic power transfer in 2013, Pakistan continues to face complex challenges. The instable security...
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Foreign aid and revenue response : an examination of joint General Budget Support
Knoll, Martin - 2011
The present paper explores the extent to which new joint General Budget Support (GBS) systems have been able to overcome the problems of aid dependency and negative fiscal incentives that can potentially result from high levels of on-budget aid. As approximately 90 percent of new joint GBS goes...
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Growing up in ethnic enclaves : language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children
Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2018
Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s in...
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Class rank and long-run outcomes
Denning, Jeffrey T.; Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - 2018
This paper considers a fundamental question about the school environment - what are the long run effects of a student's ordinal rank in elementary school? Using administrative data from all public school students in Texas, we show that students with a higher third grade academic rank,...
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Behavioural response to a sudden health risk : Dengue and educational outcomes in Colombia
Barron, Kai; Gamboa, Luis Fernando; Rodriguez-Lesmes, Paul - 2017
Epidemics tend to have a debilitating influence on the lives of directly afflicted families. However, the presence of an epidemic can also change the behaviour and outcomes of those not directly affected. This paper makes use of a short, sharp, unexpected epidemic to examine the behavioural...
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The legacy of Covid-19 in education
Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
on the conceptual framework of an education production function, we cover evidence on child, parent, and school inputs … growth and increase inequality. …
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The differential effects of foreign aid to sub-Saharan Africa
Akame, Afuge; Mavrotas, George - Instituut voor Ontwikkelingsbeleid - 2024
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