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development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …
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Despite the widespread occurrence of humanitarian emergencies such as epidemics, earthquakes, droughts, floods and violent conflict and despite the significant financial resources devoted to humanitarian assistance, systematic learning from such interventions using rigorous theory-based impact...
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-disaster development assistance to Haiti. We find that the effects of matching new seasonal agricultural jobs in the US with Haitian … and the potential for policies of this kind to complement more traditional forms of development and humanitarian …
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This paper examines fungibility as a possible explanation for the "missing link" between foreign aid and economic growth. The composition of aid plays a crucial role in determining the composition of government spending and, consequently, the magnitude of fungibility and its impact on growth....
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research is needed to distinguish between alternative theoretical models. -- female empowerment ; gender equality ; development …
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-conventional (BRICS) sources has impacted economic development in Africa over the last two decades. It provides in-depth analyses of the … Chinese Development Finance for Sustained Poverty Alleviation -- 5. Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Change: Does the … Direct Investment Impact on Development -- 8. Cross-Border Capital Flows and Economic Performance: A Sectoral Analysis -- 9 …
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This important reader brings together published articles from Palgrave's journal The European Journal of Development … Research on the development between China and Africa as well as emerging national economies in the BRICs group. Topics include … trade relations, investment in sub-Saharan Africa, global politics of development and more. …
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cooperation on development-related issues. China’s development experience has resulted in key changes to the relationships and … partnerships between China and donors, from receiving foreign aid to entering into development cooperation. China has provided … developing countries with regard to development issues. In short, foreign aid has changed China. …
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US aid interventions have greatly advantaged some countries in their quest for development, but not others. The … extensive development assistance, technology transfers and market access that the United States government granted Taiwan and … South Korea in their development and the aid recently given Costa Rica were important factors in their development successes …
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The book evaluates alternative policy options for the African countries to overcome the food crisis and the changing structure of world trade to sustain their impressive growth of the early 2000s.These policies must go beyond economic reforms and seek a solution to the entrenched political...
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