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Economic Resources, Financial Aid and Remittances
Boulanger Martel, Simon - 2018
According to the World Bank, in 2017, an estimated 450 billion US dollars in remittances were sent to Low and Middle … Income Countries. This means that the sum of remittances is more than three times larger than the sum of the world's total … official aid to the same countries. The practice of sending remittances can be seen as one specific thing that migrants do as …
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Can Microinsurance Help Prevent Child Labor? An Impact Evaluation from Pakistan
Landmann, Andreas - 2014
microfinance institution (MFI) that was set up as a randomized controlled trial and accompanied by household panel surveys …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064121
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Temporary Work Visas as Us-Haiti Development Cooperation : A Preliminary Impact Evaluation
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
We report a small-sample, preliminary evaluation of the economic impact of temporary overseas work by Haitian agricultural workers. This work occurs in the United States in the context of a pilot program designed as a form of post-disaster development assistance to Haiti. We find that the...
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What Methods May Be Used in Impact Evaluations of Humanitarian Assistance?
Puri, Jyotsna - 2015
Despite the widespread occurrence of humanitarian emergencies such as epidemics, earthquakes, droughts, floods and violent conflict and despite the significant financial resources devoted to humanitarian assistance, systematic learning from such interventions using rigorous theory-based impact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029648
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Bias and Careers : Evidence from the Aid Effectiveness Literature
Doucouliagos, Hristos - 2020
We investigate whether estimates of the effect of aid on growth are influenced by authors' careers. We collect data on the careers of 190 authors and apply meta-regression analysis to investigate the impact of authors' age and tenure status on the reported magnitude of aid effectiveness, and on...
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Unofficial Development Assistance : A Dynamic Model of Charities' Donation Income
Arulampalam, Wiji - 2011
The empirical literature on the determinants of charities donation income, distinguishing the charitable cause, is small. We extend the literature in several ways. First, we focus on overseas development charities allowing us to give more consideration to the particular characteristics of this...
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Indirect Effects of an Aid Program : The Case of Progresa and Consumption
Angelucci, Manuela; De Giorgi, Giacomo - 2021
Aid programs in developing countries are likely to affect all households living in the treated areas, both eligible and non-eligible ones. Studies that focus on the treatment effect on the treated may fail to capture important spillover effects. We exploit the unique design of an aid program's...
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Early Impacts of College Aid
Caceres-Delpiano, Julio - 2015
We analyze the impact of an expansion in government-guaranteed credit for higher education in Chile on a sample of elementary and high school students. Using students who had an alternative source of funding as a control group, and administrative records before and after the reform, we present...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016252
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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