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Location of investors and capital flight
Botman, Dennis P. J.; Diks, Cees G. H. - 2002
This paper utilizes a very simple model to study the timing and determinants of speculationagainst a fixed exchange rate regime when investors are heterogeneous because of locationaldifferences. Location matters because resident players may incur smaller costs when takinga short-position, are...
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Assessing budget support with statistical impact evaluation : a methodological proposal
Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem; Hoop, Kobus de - 2008 - Forthcoming in World Development
Donor agencies and recipient governments want to assess the effectiveness of aid-supported sector policies … is a serious constraint in the debate on aid effectiveness. We propose a method of statistical impact evaluation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372967
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Global aging and economic convergence : a real option or still a case of science fiction?
Dalen, Hendrik P. van - 2007
How does global aging affect the convergence in global economic development? Both the developing and developed world will be characterized for the coming decades by aging populations. Changes in the age distribution of a population are an important determinant of economic performance as they...
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What drives donor funding in population assistance programs?
Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Reuser, Mieke - 2005
The 1994 International Conference of Population and Development (ICPD) established goals for the expansion of population assistance. This global effort has so far not sufficiently been supported by donor funds. Dynamic panel estimation methods are used to see what lies behind the sharing of...
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Who carries the burden of reproductive health and AIDS programs? : evidence from OECD donor countries
Dalen, Hendrik P. van - 2005
the cases of bilateral aid and NGOs. The exploitation model gives however a partial view of what determines the sharing of … country, the pro-foreign aid stance of a government and the government size. Donor countries are not much affected in their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348349
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A new explanatory model for policy analysis and evaluation
Schouwstra, Marije; Ellman, Michael - 2006
This model of policy evaluation has been developed to identify factors that cause policy outcomes to diverge from the intended results. In this model the explanatory factors may be inherent to the conceptual and institutional framework to which policy makers adhere, or they may be ‘real...
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Fertile soil for structural funds?
Ederveen, Sjef; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Nahuis, Richard - 2002
Structural funds are the most intensively used policy instrument by the EuropeanUnion to promote economic growth in its member states and to speed up the process ofconvergence. This paper empirically explores the effectiveness of European Structural Fundsby means of a panel data analysis for 13...
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Is EU support to Malawi agriculture effective?
Zant, Wouter - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009722986
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New evidence on fungibility at the aggregate level
Marć, Łukasz - 2012
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The causal links between aid and government expenditures
Marć, Łukasz - 2014
The most recent literature on aid effectiveness finds a positive effect of aid on growth. To the extent that aid goes … through the budget, this either reflects an aid-financed increase in government expenditures (quantity effect) or an … investigates the causal link between on-budget aid and government expenditures using a large cross-country panel data set for 53 …
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