In 2005 China provided duty-free access to 190 items from 25 least developed sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Three … years later duty-free access was extended to 454 items from 31 SSA LDCs. We find no evidence that China's preferential …

economic development and the dynamics of inequality withinand across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit … evolved non-monotonicallyin the course of human history. In early stages of development, risk-tolerant, growthpromoting traits … process of economic development. Inmature stages of development, however, risk-averse traits gained an evolutionary advantage …

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 …

Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of …

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 …

Students from low-income families are eligible to student aid under the federal students' financial assistance scheme … (BAfoeG) in Germany. We evaluate the effectiveness of a recent reform of student aid that substantially increased the amount …

This paper aims to estimate the impact of bilateral Official Development Assistance (ODA) provided by Korea on its … 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 …

-disaster development assistance to Haiti. We find that the effects of matching new seasonal agricultural jobs in the US with Haitian … and the potential for policies of this kind to complement more traditional forms of development and humanitarian …