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Making Aid Work: Governance and Decentralization
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
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/10011094074
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Good Governance and Good Aid Allocation
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566444
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Making Aid Work: Governance and Decentralization
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2014
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/10010468184
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Should Easier Access to International Credit Replace Foreign Aid?
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Lahiri, Sajal; Younas, Javed - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
analyze how these two instruments affect economic growth via non-linear relationships. First of all, we develop a two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325434
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Should easier access to international credit replace foreign aid?
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Lahiri, Sajal; Younas, Javed - 2011
analyze how these two instruments affect economic growth via non-linear relationships. First of all, we develop a two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282320
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The impact of aid on growth revisited: do donor motives matter?
Kilby, Christopher; Dreher, Axel - 2009
aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269176
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The Impact of Aid on Growth Revisited: Do Donor Motives Matter?
Kilby, Christopher; Dreher, Axel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012888
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North-South trade-related technology diffusion: Virtuous growth cycles in Latin America
Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - 2010
variables - education, governance or openness - result in virtuous growth cycles. These are smallest under an increase in trade …) of trade-related foreign R&D (NRD), education and governance. The measures of NRD are constructed based on industry …) education and governance have a much larger direct effect on TFP in LAC than in DEV, while the opposite holds for the North's R …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269768
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North-South Trade-Related Technology Diffusion: Virtuous Growth Cycles in Latin America
Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
variables – education, governance or openness – result in virtuous growth cycles. These are smallest under an increase in trade …) of trade-related foreign R&D (NRD), education and governance. The measures of NRD are constructed based on industry …) education and governance have a much larger direct effect on TFP in LAC than in DEV, while the opposite holds for the North's R …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568276
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The costs of favoritism: is politically-driven aid less effective?
Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269460