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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003607741
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The costs of favoritism : is politically-driven aid less effective?
Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2010
World Bank projects and generally find that projects that are potentially politically motivated – such as those granted to … governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank … Council members with higher short-term debt, however, a negative quality rating is more likely. So we find evidence that World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003942325
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Seasonal effects of water quality on infant and child health in India
Brainerd, Elizabeth; Menon, Nidhiya - 2012
This paper examines the impact of fertilizer agrichemicals in water on infant and child health using data on water … groups - children of uneducated poor women living in rural India. -- fertilizer agrichemicals ; water pollutants ; child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009539295
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Volume, risk, complexity : what makes development finance projects succeed or fail?
Eilers, Yota; Kluve, Jochen; Langbein, Jörg; Reiners, … - 2023
In 2022, governments around the world committed USD 211 bn. to official development assistance. Despite these high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014446096
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Liquidity or capital? : the impacts of easing credit constraints in rural Mexico
Aparicio, Gabriela; Bobić, Vida; De Olloqui, Fernando; … - 2021
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of easing credit constraints for rural producers in Mexico through loans provided by a national public development finance institution (DFI). In contrast to most of the existing literature, the study focuses on the effect of medium-sized loans over a two-...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012581494
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Workplace, human capital and ethnic determinants of sickness absence in Sweden, 1993 -2001
Bengtsson, Tommy (contributor); Scott, Kirk (contributor) - 2008
This study charts the differences between the sickness absence of immigrants and Swedes during a period when a flourishing labour market in the beginning of the 1990s turned into a tense and problematic one. We consider not only human capital factors for various immigrant groups and natives, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003754908
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Measuring richness and poverty : a micro data application to Europe and Germany
Peichl, Andreas (contributor); Schaefer, Thilo (contributor) - 2008
In this paper, we define a new class of richness measures. In contrast to the often used headcount, these new measures are sensitive to changes in rich persons' income and therefore allow for a more sophisticated analysis of richness. We demonstrate the application of these new measures to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771064
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Happiness and the human development index : Australia is not a paradox
Leigh, Andrew (contributor); Wolfers, Justin (contributor) - 2006
in place of the HDI. Indeed, in the World Values Survey, only one other country (Iceland) has a significantly higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003320917
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A dual policy paradox : why have trade and immigration policies always differed in labor-scarce economies?
Hatton, Timothy J. (contributor);  … - 2006
Today's labor-scarce economies have open trade and closed immigration policies, while a century ago they had just the opposite, open immigration and closed trade policies. Why the inverse policy correlation, and why has it persisted for almost two centuries? This paper seeks answers to this dual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003328062
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Kombilöhne und Mindestlöhne als Instrumente der Beschäftigungspolitik : Erfahrungen und Handlungsoptionen
Eichhorst, Werner (contributor) - 2006
The paper reviews national and international experiences with different combinations of in-work benefits, subsidized employment, statutory minimum wages and implicit minimum wages defined by social assistance provisions. It calls for a cautious approach regarding the introduction of additional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003330274