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Does aid support democracy? : a systematic review of the literature

Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; … - 2021

literature on aid and democracy. It asks: Does aid-especially democracy aid-have positive impact on democracy? How? What factors … most influence its impact? In so doing, it considers studies that explicitly focus on 'democracy aid' as an aggregate … category, its subcomponents (e.g. aid to elections), and 'developmental aid'. Overall, the evidence suggests that i) democracy …

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How do human rights violations affect poverty and income distribution?

Apergēs, Nikolaos; Cooray, Arusha - 2019

The goal of this paper is to examine the impact of human rights on income distribution and poverty by exploring how both aid and trade can influence poverty and income distribution through human rights. The analysis employs data for 125 countries and uses a number of panel data methods. The...

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The corruption-growth relationship : do political institutions matter?

Saha, Shrabani; Sen, Kunal - 2019

Corruption is widely believed to negatively affect economic growth. However, many East and Southeast Asia countries either achieved or currently are achieving impressively rapid economic growth despite widespread corruption - the 'East Asian Paradox'. Is this negative relationship equally likely...

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Foreign aid for capacity-building to address climate change : insights and applications

Victor, David G. - 2013

The paper examines the role of foreign aid in building capacity to address climate change. While the experience with this topic is relatively recent and not yet extensive, analogous questions have arisen in many other areas of foreign aid. It is likely that climate change aid programmes work...

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Trade openness, export diversification, and political regimes

Maklouf, Yousef; Kellard, Neil M.; Vinogradov, Dmitri V. - In: Economics letters 136 (2015), pp. 25-27

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The interaction effect of economic freedom and democracy on corruption : a panel cross-country analysis

Saha, Shrabani; Gounder, Rukmani; Su, Jen-je - In: Economics letters 105 (2009) 2, pp. 173-176

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Political regimes and income inequality

Kemp-Benedict, Eric - In: Economics letters 113 (2011) 3, pp. 266-268

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Comparing the spread of capitalism and democracy

Leeson, Peter T.; Sobel, Russell S.; Dean, Andrea M. - In: Economics letters 114 (2012) 1, pp. 139-141

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Income and democracy : evidence from system GMM estimates

Heid, Benedikt; Langer, Julian; Larch, Mario - In: Economics letters 116 (2012) 2, pp. 166-169

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Are all democracies equally good? The role of interactions between political environment and inequality for rule of law

Sunde, Uwe; Cervellati, Matteo; Fortunato, Piergiuseppe - In: Economics letters 99 (2008) 3, pp. 552-556

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