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Morocco's trade liberalization policies have promoted economic progress over the past two decades. However, effects on Morocco's local labor market outcomes vary. By combining three complementary approaches and modeling techniques, this paper estimates: (i) how trade agreements have increased...
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We examine the interaction between foreign aid and binding borrowing constraint for arecipient country. We also analyze … foreign aid it receives, and (ii) there is a criticallevel of international financial transfer, and the marginal effect of … foreign aid is larger than thatof loans if and only if the transfer (loans or foreign aid) is below this critical level.... …
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We examine the interaction between foreign aid and binding borrowing constraint for a recipient country. We also … amount of foreign aid it receives, and (ii) there is a critical level of international financial transfer, and the marginal … effect of foreign aid is larger than that of loans if and only if the transfer (loans or foreign aid) is below this critical …
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We investigate whether estimates of the effect of aid on growth are influenced by authors' careers. We collect data on … on the reported magnitude of aid effectiveness, and on the degree of selectivity in which results are reported. On … with aid agencies …
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generalized by disaggregation of ODA into its underlying types. The results show that, humanitarian aid and loan-type aid turn out … that there is a two-stage decision making process in aid provision. In the first stage, a humanitarian purpose of aid …
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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 probability of allocating health aid to a recipient nation. The …
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are available from natural resources, oil, or foreign development assistance. A one-standard-deviation increase in rents …
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In 1998, the Good Friday Agreement concluded a period of violence in Northern Ireland yet the scars of the conflict remained prevalent in the political landscape. Rival communities remained divided, economic performance was poor and intercommunity tensions frequently manifested. In a bid to...
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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 …
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As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that … politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of … – are no more likely, on average, to get a negative quality rating than other projects. When aid is given to Security …
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