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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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research is needed to distinguish between alternative theoretical models. -- female empowerment ; gender equality ; development …
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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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tertiary education on development, as measured by light density at night. The findings are robust to different measures of … development, and are not driven by alternative channels through which missionaries could impact current income. …
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International donors usually have particular goals they want to achieve with their foreign aid, for example, poverty alleviation. In the international aid story lobbying by potential recipient groups attempting to capture the donor's support play a potentially important role for nongovernmental...
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small. We extend the literature in several ways. First, we focus on overseas development charities allowing us to give more … development funding. -- charitable giving ; overseas development …
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Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of …
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In 1998, the Good Friday Agreement concluded a period of violence in Northern Ireland yet the scars of the conflict remained prevalent in the political landscape. Rival communities remained divided, economic performance was poor and intercommunity tensions frequently manifested. In a bid to...
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