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Busse, Matthias - 2003

empirically the complex relationship between democracy and FDI in a systematic way, using cross-sectional and panel data analysis …

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Principal-Agent-Probleme in internationalen Organisationen

Vaubel, Roland - 2003

Der Aufsatz zeigt anhand zahlreicher Beispiele und quantitativer Analysen, dass internationale Organisationen – mehr als alle anderen staatlichen Institutionen – ein extremes Kontrolldefizit aufweisen. Umfragen belegen, dass sie andere Interessen als die Bürger haben. Sie können diese...

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Development Aid and the CDM - How to interpret "Financial Additionality"

Dutschke, Michael; Michaelowa, Axel - 2003

International climate negotiations have specified that projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) should not lead to a „diversion“ of official development assistance (ODA). It is however unchallenged that ODA can be used in capacity building for the CDM. Diversion can be...

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Aid, Governance, and Private Foreign Investment: Some Puzzling Findings and a Possible Explanation

Harms, Philipp; Lutz, Matthias - 2003

and emerging economies. Controlling for countries? institutional environment, we find that, evaluated at the mean, the …

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Aid Effectiveness Reconsidered: Panel Data Evidence for the Education Sector

Michaelowa, Katharina - 2004

Applying the general question of aid effectiveness to the sector of education, this paper reveals an overall positive effect of development assistance on primary enrolment. However, even the most optimistic estimates clearly show that at any realistic rate of growth, aid will never be able to...

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The World Bank as an International Financial Institution

Shams, Rasul - 2004

The World Bank is a prestigious and large international financial institution. Since its foundation it has widened the scope and the size of its activities. One interpretation of what the World Bank is doing is the provision of public goods. If we take this interpretation seriously the...

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The Political Economy of US Aid to Pakistan

Anwar, Mumtaz; Michaelowa, Katharina - 2004

Variations of bilateral aid flows are difficult to explain on the basis of official development objectives or recipient need. At the example of US aid to Pakistan, this paper suggests alternative political economic explanations, notably the relevance of ethnic lobbying and the relevance of US...

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What Determines Evaluation Outcomes? Evidence from Bi- and Multilateral Development Cooperation

Michaelowa, Katharina; Borrmann, Axel - 2004

Donor agencies invest considerable financial and human resources to evaluate the outcome of their development activities. To derive institutional conditions conducive to an efficient use of these resources, we develop a multi-level principal-agent model focusing on the various interests of the...

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Modelling the fiscal effects of aid: An impulse response approach for Ghana

Morrissey, Oliver; Osei, Robert; Lloyd, Tim - 2002

An important feature of aid to developing countries is that it is given to the government. As a result aid has the potential to affect budgetary behaviour. Although the (albeit limited) aid-growth literature has addressed the effect of aid on policy, it has tended to neglect the effect of aid on...

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EU aid for ACP investment

Wolf, Susanna - 2002

The partnership between the EU and the ACP countries (that include 38 of the world's 49 least developed countries) has …. The EU-ACP Partnership Agreement could increase incentives for private investment in the ACP countries either through … direct support measures or more indirectly through complementary spending for infrastructure and administration. The special …

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