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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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Allocation of Labour in Urban West Africa : Implication for Development Policies

Dimova, Ralitza D. - 2013

With the use of comparable data from seven West African capitals, we attempt to assess the rationale behind development policies targeting high rates of school enrollment through the prism of allocation of labour and returns to skills across the formal and informal sectors. We find that people...

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Emigration and Democracy

Docquier, Frédéric - 2011

. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled …

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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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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...

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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....

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Firm Heterogeneity, Informal Wage and Good Governance

Kar, Saibal - 2011

We provide an analysis of enforcement policies applicable to formal sector in dual labor markets. We use a framework with heterogeneous firms, endogenous determination of informal wage and politically dictated enforcement strategies. Firms which operate both in the formal and informal sectors do...

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Institutions and Entry : A Cross-Regional Analysis in Russia

Bruno, Randolph Luca - 2011

democracy enhances entry rates for small sized firms but reduces them for medium or large ones …

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Income, Democracy, and Critical Junctures

Cervellati, Matteo - 2012

democracy disappears once including country fixed effects. This paper tests the hypothesis that the effect of income on … democracy might differ systematically across countries. A replication of the estimation in a less restrictive empirical … framework provides evidence for significant but heterogeneous effects of income on democracy for former colonies and non …

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