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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...

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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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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...

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A firm of one's own : experimental evidence on credit constraints and occupational choice

Brudevold-Newman, Andrew; Honorati, Maddalena; Jakiela, … - 2017

We conducted a randomized evaluation of two labor market interventions targeted to young women aged 18 to 19 in three of Nairobi's poorest neighborhoods. One treatment offered participants a bundled intervention designed to simultaneously relieve credit and human capital constraints; a second...

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Do large employers pay more in developing countries? : the case of five African countries

Strobl, Eric; Thornton, Robert J. - 2002

Using comparable data sets for five African countries we estimate, and evaluate possible explanations for, the employer size wage effect across these. Our results indicate, just as has been generally found for other developing and developed nations, that apart from observable worker...

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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 …

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Preferential market access into the Chinese market : how good is it for Africa?

Co, Catherine Yap; Dimova, Ralitza - 2014

In 2005 China provided duty-free access to 190 items from 25 least developed sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Three … years later duty-free access was extended to 454 items from 31 SSA LDCs. We find no evidence that China's preferential …

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What drives attitudes toward immigrants in Sub-Saharan Africa? : evidence from Uganda and Senegal

Becker, Malte; Krüger, Finja; Heidland, Tobias - 2024

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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-...

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Family migration : a vehicle of child morbidity in the informal settlements of Nairobi City, Kenya?

Konseiga, Adama (contributor) - 2008

Parental migration is often found to be negatively correlated with child health in Africa, yet the causal mechanisms … context of increasing urban poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. The findings indicate that households who migrated together with their … ; incidental truncation ; informal settlements ; Nairobi ; Kenya …

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