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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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Volume, risk, complexity : what makes development finance projects succeed or fail?
Eilers, Yota; Kluve, Jochen; Langbein, Jörg; Reiners, … - 2023
the biggest global donors, KfW Development Bank. Detailed data on project characteristics allow us to link success ratings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014446096
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Charitable giving for overseas development : UK trends over a quarter century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Backus, Peter; Micklewright, John; … - 2008
Charitable giving for overseas development and emergency relief is important in the UK, being about a quarter of the size of government development aid. There has been a strong growth over time, reflecting the activities of development charities and the public response to a series of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003782549
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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 … Bank project quality suffers as a consequence of political influence only when the recipient country is economically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003942325
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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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Aid, growth, and jobs
Fields, Gary S. - 2013
Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696021
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US Presidential Party switches are mirrored in global maternal mortality
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2021
We provide estimates of impacts on maternal mortality of swings in US aid for family planning and maternal health driven by switches in implementation of the Global Gag Rule (GGR) with US Presidential Party. The GGR is a pro-life policy that prohibits aid to overseas non-governmental...
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Bias and careers: evidence from the aid effectiveness literature
Doucouliagos, Chris; Hinz, Thomas; Zigova, Katarina - 2020
We investigate whether estimates of the effect of aid on growth are influenced by authors' careers. We collect data on the careers of 190 authors and apply meta-regression analysis to investigate the impact of authors' age and tenure status on the reported magnitude of aid effectiveness, and on...
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Health aid, governance and infant mortality
Doucouliagos, Chris; Hennessy, Jack; Mallick, Debdulal - 2019
We investigate the impact of health aid on infant mortality conditional on the quality of governance in 96 recipient countries. Our analysis applies the long difference estimator and instrumental variable estimation, with aid instrumented by donor government fractionalization interacted with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011980629
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440614