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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...
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Good Governance and Good Aid Allocation
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2021
We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The structure of the competition is important to the donor in terms of achieving good governance, and to the...
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Measuring the Spatial Misallocation of Labor : The Returns to India-Gulf Guest Work in a Natural Experiment
Clemens, Michael A. - 2019
'Guest workers' earn higher wages overseas on temporary low-skill employment visas. This wage effect can quantify global inefficiencies in the pure spatial allocation of labor between poorer and richer countries. But rigorous estimates are rare, complicated by migrant self-selection. This paper...
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Testing for Repugnance in Economic Transactions : Evidence from Guest Work in the Gulf
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
Despite the large individual benefits of guest work by the poor in rich countries, agencies charged with global poverty reduction do little to facilitate guest work. This may be because guest work is viewed as a repugnant transaction – one whose harmful side-effects might cause third parties...
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Should Easier Access to International CreditReplace Foreign Aid?
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Lahiri, Sajal; Younas, Javed - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
We examine the interaction between foreign aid and binding borrowing constraint for arecipient country. We also analyze how these two instruments affect economic growth vianon-linear relationships. First of all, we develop a two-country, two-period trade-theoreticmodel to develop testable...
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Aid, Growth, and Jobs
Fields, Gary - 2013
Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the...
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The Costs of Favoritism : Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?
Dreher, Axel - 2010
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 World Bank projects and generally find that...
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Project Aid and Firm Performance
Marchesi, Silvia; Masi, Tania; Paul, Saumik - 2022
This paper evaluates the effect of development project aid from the World Bank and China on firms' sales growth, using a large dataset of 110864 firms spanning 121 countries between 2001 and 2016. We find that, contrary to the World Bank, Chinese ODA projects increase, on average, firm sales...
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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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Do Natural Disasters Affect Human Capital? An Assessment Based on Existing Empirical Evidence
Baez, Javier - 2011
health, including mental health. Three major findings come forward from this work. First, disasters appear to bring …, education, health and many income-generating processes. Furthermore, some of these detrimental effects are both large and long … of improving our understanding of the impacts of disasters on health outcomes, the mechanisms of transmission and the …
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