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The impact of aid on growth revisited: do donor motives matter?
Kilby, Christopher; Dreher, Axel - 2009
The typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter and then testing the assumption empirically.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269176
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Behavioral foundations of microcredit: Experimental and survey evidence from rural India
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; Morduch, Jonathan - 2010
Microcredit is an innovative financial tool designed to reduce poverty and fix credit market imperfections. We use experimental measures of time discounting and risk aversion for villagers in south India to highlight behavioral features of microcredit. Conditional on borrowing from any source,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269753
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Are women more credit constrained? Experimental evidence on gender and microenterprise returns
de Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David; Woodruff, Christopher - 2008
In a recent randomized experiment we found mean returns to capital of between 5 and 6 percent per month in Sri Lankan microenterprises, much higher than market interest rates. But returns were found to be much higher among men than among women, and indeed were not different from zero for women....
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Brain drain in globalization: a general equilibrium analysis from the sending countries' perspective
Marchiori, Luca; Shen, I-ling; Docquier, Frédéric - 2009
The paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts. By constructing a unified generic framework characterized by overlapping-generations dynamics and calibrated to real data, this study incorporates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269352
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Remittances and the brain drain: skilled migrants do remit less
Niimi, Yoko; Özden, Çağlar; Schiff, Maurice - 2008
migrants send home. This paper examines whether remittances actually increase with migrants' education level. The determinants … of remittances it considers include migration levels or rates, migrants' education level, and source countries' income … considered in the few studies on this topic. Our main finding is that remittances decrease with the share of migrants with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276107
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Good governance and good aid allocation
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 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/10010268553
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Formal and informal risk sharing in LDCs: theory and empirical evidence
Dubois, Pierre; Jullien, Bruno; Magnac, Thierry - 2007
estimate the model with the use of data from Pakistan villages. Empirical results are consistent with the economic arguments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268401
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Where has all the money gone? Foreign aid and the quest for growth
Chatterjee, Santanu; Giuliano, Paola; Kaya, Ilker - 2007
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268229
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Do dropouts benefit from training programs? Korean evidence employing methods for continuous treatments
Choe, Chung; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Lee, Sang-jun - 2011
Failure of participants to complete training programs is pervasive in existing active labor market programs both in developed and developing countries. The proportion of dropouts in prototypical programs ranges from 10 to 50 percent of all participants. From a policy perspective, it is of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282210
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Population policies, fertility, women's human capital, and child quality
Schultz, T. Paul - 2007
Population policies are defined here as voluntary programs which help people control their fertility and expect to improve their lives. There are few studies of the long-run effects of policy-induced changes in fertility on the welfare of women, such as policies that subsidize the diffusion and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268475