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Does development reduce migration?
Clemens, Michael A. - 2014
development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …
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Foreign aid and female empowerment
Perrotta Berlin, Maria; Bonnier, Evelina; Olofsgård, Anders - 2023
We estimate the community-level impact of foreign aid projects on women's empowerment in the country with the most complete recent record of geo-coded aid project placement, Malawi. Our estimates can thus be interpreted as the average impact of aid from many different donors and diverse...
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What methods may be used in impact evaluations of humanitarian assistance?
Puri, Jyotsna; Aladysheva, Anastasia; Iversen, Vegard; … - 2015
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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Temporary work visas as US-Haiti development cooperation : a preliminary impact evaluation
Clemens, Michael A.; Postel, Hannah - 2017
-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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011612941
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Disaster and political trust : a natural experiment from the 2017 Mexico City earthquake
Frost, Margaret; Kim, Sangeun; Scartascini, Carlos G.; … - 2024
Political trust is foundational to democratic legitimacy, representative governance, and the provision of effective public policy. Various shocks can influence this trust, steering countries onto positive or negative trajectories. This study examines whether natural disasters can impact general...
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Where has all the money gone? : Foreign aid and the quest for growth
Chatterjee, Santanu (contributor);  … - 2007
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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Does female empowerment promote economic development?
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michele - 2011
research is needed to distinguish between alternative theoretical models. -- female empowerment ; gender equality ; development …
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A hundred key questions for the post-2015 development agenda
2015
With a new development framework under way and an increasingly urgent need to address political, socioeconomic and … environmental issues on a global scale, this is a critical moment for the international development agenda. Almost 15 years after … the Millennium Declaration, a new phase for international development is about to begin and, with it, comes the …
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Rate of interest, foreign aid and the demand for money : evidence from Bangladesh
Taslim, Mohammad Ali - 1982
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Allocation of labour in urban West Africa : implication for development policies
Dimova, Ralitza (contributor);  … - 2008
With the use of comparable data from seven West African capitals, we attempt to assess the rationale behind development …
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