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aid and migrants’ remittances. Results suggest that FDI increases inequality, while remittances tend to reduce inequality …. Trade and aid have a non-linear relationship with income distribution: trade favours the poorest in middle income countries … while aid favours the middle class in democracies. Simulations suggest that, on average, the highly adverse impact on …
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This paper studies interactions between aid and three other major North-South flows : international trade, FDI and … migrations. It mainly focuses on the question of whether aid is allocated to countries that are benefiting from the other flows … considered here or the reverse. It appears that aid allocation is increasingly compensatory, while its relative weight among …
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insufficient social knowledge seem to be the major constraints on reform. We find that financial aid tends to allow the ruling …
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After debt cancellations, in particular MDRI (Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative) debt ratios in Low Income Country dropped to historic lows. They are now getting into debt again, because of Bretton Woods Institutions (BWI) new loans, of emerging countries’ (namely China) loans, and sometimes...
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, first to increase their unskilled labour endowments for strengthening their comparative advantage relative to complying …
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, first to increase their unskilled labour endowments for strengthening their comparative advantage relative to complying …
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standards improvement. In this way, they can raise the volume of their unskilled labour endowments (child and/or forced labour … multilateral effects on all exports and imports. We show that, other things being equal, countries that meet the labour standards …
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This paper extends and applies principal-agent theory to the performance of donor projects. There is variation in the degree of divergence between the interests of the donor (the principal) and the recipient government (the agent). Further, the effort expended on observation of the agent is a...
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We build and implement a normative procedure to allocate international aid based on equality of opportunity concerning … the risk of poverty. This is an alternative to Collier and Dollar’s proposal (2001) which stresses the impact of aid on … those of Collier and Dollar, differ from current aid allocation by giving more to the poorest countries. Apart from this …
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