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Beyond Conflict : Long-Term Labour Market Integration of Internally Displaced Persons in Post-Socialist Countries
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2017
The break-ups of the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia were accompanied by some of the worst military conflicts in modern history, claiming lives of thousands of people and forcibly displacing millions. We study how people displaced by war and conflict within these countries fare on the labour...
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Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?
Doepke, Matthias - 2011
Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to their husbands) benefits children. Does this observation imply that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? We develop a series of noncooperative family bargaining models to understand what kind of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126924
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Aid, Growth, and Jobs
Fields, Gary - 2013
absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087872
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Health Aid, Governance and Infant Mortality
Doucouliagos, Hristos - 2019
We investigate the impact of health aid on infant mortality conditional on the quality of governance in 96 recipient countries. Our analysis applies the long difference estimator and instrumental variable estimation, with aid instrumented by donor government fractionalization interacted with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870328
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Making Aid Work : Governance and Decentralization
Epstein, Gil S. - 2015
Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort into having an effect. A department may come into conflict with other departments because of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013031606
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Where Has All the Money Gone? Foreign Aid and the Quest for Growth
Chatterjee, Santanu; Giuliano, Paola; Kaya, Ilker - 2021
This paper examines fungibility as a possible explanation for the missing link between foreign aid and economic growth. The composition of aid plays a crucial role in determining the composition of government spending and, consequently, the magnitude of fungibility and its impact on growth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317224
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Should Easier Access to International Credit Replace Foreign Aid?
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2011
We examine the interaction between foreign aid and binding borrowing constraint for a recipient country. We also analyze how these two instruments affect economic growth via non-linear relationships. First of all, we develop a two-country, two-period trade-theoretic model to develop testable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119295
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The Costs of Favoritism : Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?
Dreher, Axel - 2010
World Bank projects and generally find that projects that are potentially politically motivated – such as those granted to … governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank … Council members with higher short-term debt, however, a negative quality rating is more likely. So we find evidence that World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146478
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Do Labor Statistics Depend on How and to Whom the Questions are Asked? Results from a Survey Experiment in Tanzania
Bardasi, Elena - 2012
Labor market statistics are critical for assessing and understanding economic development. In practice, widespread variation exists in how labor statistics are measured in household surveys in low-income countries. Little is known whether these differences have an effect on the labor statistics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116405
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The Dynamics of the Regulation of Labor in Developing and Developed Countries Since 1960
Campos, Nauro F. - 2012
This paper examines both the determinants and the effects of changes in the rigidity of labor market legislation across countries over time. Recent research identifies the origin of the legal system as being a major determinant of the cross-country variation in the rigidity of employment...
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