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Making aid work : governance and decentralization
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2014
Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort into having an effect. A department may come into conflict with other departments because of...
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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 … contributions, systematic assessments of the determinants of success - or failure - of development aid projects remain limited …, particularly for bilateral development aid. This paper provides such a systematic, quantitative analysis: we construct a unique …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014446096
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Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend
Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2016
out of a development trap. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528105
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009238664
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Gender equity in labor market opportunities and aggregate technical efficiency : a case of equity promoting efficiency
Hazarika, Gautam; Khraiche, Maroula; Kutlu, Levent - 2023
This study applies a panel data stochastic frontier analysis to country data towards examining the effect of gender equity in labor market opportunities upon efficiency in the production of GDP. It finds that aggregate technical efficiency is improved by a widening of women's labor market...
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Peace, terrorism, or civil conflict? : understanding the decision of an opposition group
Jetter, Michael - 2016
are available from natural resources, oil, or foreign development assistance. A one-standard-deviation increase in rents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011493846
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The impact of aid on growth revisited : do donor motives matter?
Kilby, Christopher; Dreher, Axel - 2009
The typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter and then testing the assumption empirically. -- Aid ;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832281
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The costs of favoritism : is politically-driven aid less effective?
Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2010
As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003942325
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Contests, NGOs and decentralizing aid
Epstein, Gil S. (contributor); Gang, Ira N. (contributor) - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003053135
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Project aid and firm performance
Marchesi, Silvia; Masi, Tania; Paul, Saumik - 2021
This paper evaluates the effect of development project aid from the World Bank and China on firms' sales growth, using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612641