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Post conflict aid is different from conventional development aid and has different effects on the recipient economy …. The paper builds a theoretical model tailored around the main stylized facts of post conflict aid and traces the impact of … different kinds of post-conflict aid on capital accumulation, growth, welfare, and resource allocation. While both humanitarian …
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conflict cycle has probably declined. The stance of macroeconomic policy was an important factor while the underlying … ""conflict process"" remained unchanged. This shift seems related to changes in aid flows since the Cold War: donors became … disinclined to provide support during conflict, but more inclined after conflict. These findings are buttressed by the post-conflict …
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social conflict for 30 sub-Saharan African countries using panel data techniques. Our results show that changes in the terms … of trade are the most important correlate of economic performance in post-conflict environments. This variable is … significant effect. The results suggest that exogenous factors (""luck"") are an important factor in post-conflict recovery. They …
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This paper assesses the effectiveness of foreign aid in reducing poverty through its impact on human development indicators. We use a dataset of both bilateral aid and NGO aid flows. Our results show that NGO aid reduces infant mortality and does so more effectively than official bilateral aid....
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This paper studies the aid allocation of European nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Once population is controlled … for, poverty consistently appears as the main worldwide determinant of NGO aid allocation. NGOs do not respond to …
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This paper presents a dynamic game of strategic delegation between a principal and an agent. The principal can choose between two organizational designs: a traditional hierarchy where she retains authority over the choice of projects to be implemented or a delegation where she allows her agent...
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prioritized technical assistance and training to fragile and conflict-affected states. These interventions have yielded only … for the dissipation of progress resulting from insufficient resources that fragile and conflict-affected states allocate …
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Macroeconomic costs of conflict are generally very large, with GDP per capita about 28 percent lower ten years after … conflict onset. This is overwhelmingly driven by private consumption, which falls by 25 percent ten years after conflict onset …. Conflict is also associated with dramatic declines in official trade, with exports (imports) estimated to be 58 (34) percent …
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The three main financial inflows to developing countries have largely increased during the last two decades, despite the large debate in the literature regarding their effects on economic growth which is not yet clear-cut. An emerging literature investigates the dependence of their effects on...
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Tanzania’s adjustment program, which began in the mid-1980s, was accompanied by a sharp increase in the levels of foreign assistance. Previous studies, using published data, have not reflected much improvement in economic performance during the reform period. This paper attempts to shed new...
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