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Is foreign aid concentrated increasingly on needy and deserving recipient countries? : an analysis of Theil indices, 1995-2015

Bickenbach, Frank; Mbelu, Asithandile; Nunnenkamp, Peter - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 115 (2019), pp. 1-16

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Is foreign aid concentrated increasingly on needy and deserving recipient countries? : an analysis of Theil indices, 1995-2015

Bickenbach, Frank; Mbelu, Asithandile; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2017

By tracking the changes in different margins of Theil indices during the period 1995-2015, we re-consider the question of whether bilateral and multilateral donors have targeted aid increasingly to particularly needy recipient countries with relatively good governance in order to improve the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011644423

Reaching a climate agreement : do we have to compensate for energy market effects of climate policy?

Peterson, Sonja; Weitzel, Matthias - 2014

Because of large economic and environmental asymmetries among world regions and the incentive to free ride, an … additionally an "equal loss" Scenario where welfare losses relative to a Business as usual Scenario are equal for all Major world …

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Shooting the messenger of good news : a critical look at the World Bank's success story of effective aid

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2002

In a report presented at the UN Conference on Financing for Development in March 2002, the World Bank claims that the … policies. However, the World Bank's success story rests on an extremely weak foundation: First, the institution's contribution … the distribution of World Bank financing. Second, the picture portrayed in the report takes a bad turn if only two …

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Less aid proliferation and more donor coordination? : The wide gap between words and deeds

Aldasoro, Iñaki; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - 2009

We present a two-step approach of assessing whether major donors of foreign aid have met recent demands for less proliferated and better coordinated aid efforts. First, we calculate Theil indices revealing the concentration of each donor's aid on recipient countries and specific aid sectors....

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Analysing bioenergy and land use competition in a coupled modelling system : the role of bioenergy in renewable energy policy in Germany

Delzeit, Ruth; Gömann, Horst; Holm-Müller, Karin; … - 2010

target on German agriculture and world agricultural prices. A main result of the simulations is that accounting for existing …

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Determinants of donor generosity : a survey of the aid budget literature

Fuchs, Andreas; Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 56 (2014), pp. 172-199

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Why it pays for aid recipients to take note of the Millennium Challenge Corporation : other donors do!

Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2010

It is widely believed that the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has grossly fallen short of high expectations raised by the Bush administration in 2002. From the perspective of potential recipient countries, the crucial issue is whether the MCC increased the overall pool of aid resources...

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Distribution matters : taxes vs. emissions trading in post Kyoto climate regimes

Peterson, Sonja (contributor); Klepper, Gernot (contributor) - 2007

The policy instruments for emissions reductions will be an integral part of a Post Kyoto Climate Regime. In this paper we compare a harmonized international carbon tax to a cap and trade system with different allocation rules for the emission caps. The caps are based either on the requirement...

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Sectoral aid priorities : are donors really doing their best to achieve the millennium development goals?

Thiele, Rainer - 2006

We analyze the aid portfolio of various bilateral and multilateral donors, testing whether they have prioritised aid in line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In doing so, we combine sectorally disaggregated aid data with indicators reflecting the situation of recipient countries...

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