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. Whilst US aid has correctly been cited as key factor in explaining the rapid post-war development of South Korea and Taiwan …
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development partners, introduced the Tanzania Joint Assistance Strategy. This resulted in an improvement in the country …'s operational development strategies and by 2010 out of 13 indicators with applicable targets, six were met. The paper concludes …
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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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Aid is still an important feature of the development landscape. Fragile states, in particular, have the greatest … development needs but due to their poor governance they are the least likely countries to use aid effectively to meet their … development challenges. In this paper, we explore which fragile states receive most aid flows, which donors are particularly …
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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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-operation and Development's (OECD) Creditor Reporting System (CRS) data on foreign aid and indices of democracy from the Varieties …
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universities and the infrastructure for higher education in forestry, agriculture, and rural development, is important in the long …
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importance for official development assistance. …
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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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perceptions in the employment decision-making process. Crucial to the analysis is the introduction of the aid-industry/development … development sector. The results show that cognitive ability matters for occupational choice, as higher ability workers are more … likely to choose the development sector over other sectors. Skilled graduates also sort by intrinsic motivations to some …
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