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Transitional justice and aid
Hellsten, Sirkku - 2012
) authoritarian societies in order to strengthen their democracy. Special attention is paid to gender justice. Illustrations are drawn …
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Aid and governance in vulnerable states : Bangladesh and Pakistan since 1971
Khan, Mushtaq H. - 2013
Bangladesh and Pakistan had very divergent experiences with aid after 1971. Politics in Pakistan was less inclusive in terms of opportunities for intermediate class political entrepreneurs. In this context, the significant role of military aid to Pakistan had very negative effects on its...
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Does aid support democracy? : a systematic review of the literature
Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; … - 2021
literature on aid and democracy. It asks: Does aid-especially democracy aid-have positive impact on democracy? How? What factors … most influence its impact? In so doing, it considers studies that explicitly focus on 'democracy aid' as an aggregate … category, its subcomponents (e.g. aid to elections), and 'developmental aid'. Overall, the evidence suggests that i) democracy …
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Democracy and aid donorship
Fuchs, Andreas; Müller, Angelika - 2018 - This version: September 2018
Almost half of the world's states provide bilateral development assistance. While previous research takes the set of donor countries as exogenous, this article is the first to explore the determinants of aid donorship. We hypothesize that democratic institutions reduce poor countries' likelihood...
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European aid to the MENA region after the Arab uprisings : a window of opportunity missed
Bodenstein, Thilo; Furness, Mark - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2023
all donors promised to support democracy in MENA countries, none had a clear strategy for doing so via their development …
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How do human rights violations affect poverty and income distribution?
Apergēs, Nikolaos; Cooray, Arusha - 2019
The goal of this paper is to examine the impact of human rights on income distribution and poverty by exploring how both aid and trade can influence poverty and income distribution through human rights. The analysis employs data for 125 countries and uses a number of panel data methods. The...
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Democracies cooperate more : even where it threatens to bite?
Hühne, Philipp; Meyer, Birgit; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Roy, … - 2015
Estimating two-step selection models, we find that more democratic governments are more likely to conclude preferential trade agreements (PTAs) and to agree to stricter investment provisions related to pre-establishment national treatment and investor-state dispute settlement in PTAs. This is...
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The corruption-growth relationship : do political institutions matter?
Saha, Shrabani; Sen, Kunal - 2019
Corruption is widely believed to negatively affect economic growth. However, many East and Southeast Asia countries either achieved or currently are achieving impressively rapid economic growth despite widespread corruption - the 'East Asian Paradox'. Is this negative relationship equally likely...
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The state and development
Evans, Peter B.; Heller, Patrick - 2018
development, defined as enhanced well-being and human flourishing, and democracy, defined as accountability to the deliberatively …
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The effects of the Coffee Trademarking Initiative and Starbucks publicity on export prices of Ethiopian coffee
Arslan, Aslıhan; Reicher, Christopher Phillip - 2010
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