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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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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 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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The effects of the Coffee Trademarking Initiative and Starbucks publicity on export prices of Ethiopian coffee

Arslan, Aslıhan; Reicher, Christopher Phillip - 2010

; Oxfam ; Starbucks ; Ethiopia …

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Foreign aid for capacity-building to address climate change : insights and applications

Victor, David G. - 2013

The paper examines the role of foreign aid in building capacity to address climate change. While the experience with this topic is relatively recent and not yet extensive, analogous questions have arisen in many other areas of foreign aid. It is likely that climate change aid programmes work...

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The agricultural and the democratic transitions : causality and the roundup model

Gundlach, Erich; Paldam, Martin - 2009

causes a large increase in democracy known as the democratic transition. Elsewhere we have shown that it is almost as strong …

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Two views on institutions and development : the grand transition vs. the primacy of institutions

Paldam, Martin (contributor); Gundlach, Erich (contributor) - 2007

two views. Property rights do affect development as suggested by the PoI. However, democracy is mainly an effect of …

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