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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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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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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...

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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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How Large is the Private Sector in Africa? Evidence from National Accounts and Labor Markets

Stampini, Marco - 2012

In recent years, the private sector has been recognized as a key engine of Africa's economic development. Yet, the most … sector countries are concentrated in Western Africa (Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, Niger, Senegal and Togo), Central Africa … (Cameroun, Republic of Congo) and Eastern Africa (Kenya, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania), with the addition of Mauritius. Countries …

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Brain Drain or Brain Gain? Micro Evidence from an African Success Story

Batista, Catia; Lacuesta, Aitor; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2021

Does emigration really drain human capital accumulation in origin countries? This paper explores a unique household survey purposely designed and conducted to answer this specific question for the case of Cape Verde - the African country with the largest fraction of tertiary educated population...

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Labor Mobility and Innovation in Africa

Mbaye, Linguère; Okara, Assi; Tani, Massimiliano - 2022

or process and carry out an empirical analysis with a focus on Africa using firm-level data from the World Bank … and foster innovation. The probability of innovation as a result of short-term mobility is 0.4 higher in Africa overall … especially in East Africa vis-à-vis the rest of the world, and strongest in the case of innovation in products and services …

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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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Does Official Development Assistance Affect Donor's Export? Case of Korea

Noh, Bobae - 2017

This paper aims to estimate the impact of bilateral Official Development Assistance (ODA) provided by Korea on its bilateral export to recipient countries. The empirical analysis is based on data from 1996 to 2014 with 121 recipient countries. Although the two models of determinants of ODA and...

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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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