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Estimating the aggregate agricultural supply response : a survey of techniques and results for developing countries

Thiele, Rainer - 2000

For many low-income countries, the impact of structural reforms on economic growth and poverty alleviation crucially depends on the response of aggregate agricultural supply to changing incentives. Despite its policy relevance, the size of this parameter is still largely unknown. This paper...

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The new economy and the international regulatory framework

Piazolo, Daniel - 2001

The rapid diffusion of the internet and electronic commerce changes the way business and international trade take place. The new economy poses new challenges to the international regulatory framework, since small distortions due to differing sets of regulations and taxation between countries...

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Does private aid follow the flag? : an empirical analysis of humanitarian assistance

Fuchs, Andreas; Öhler, Hannes - 2019 - This version: April 2019

Little is known about foreign aid provided by private donors. This paper contributes to closing this research gap by comparing the allocation of private humanitarian aid to that of official humanitarian aid awarded to 140 recipient countries over the 2000-2016 period. We construct a new database...

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Is foreign aid concentrated increasingly on needy and deserving recipient countries? : an analysis of Theil indices, 1995-2015

Bickenbach, Frank; Mbelu, Asithandile; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2017

By tracking the changes in different margins of Theil indices during the period 1995-2015, we re-consider the question of whether bilateral and multilateral donors have targeted aid increasingly to particularly needy recipient countries with relatively good governance in order to improve the...

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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 …

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WTO negotiations and accession issues for vulnerable economies

Langhammer, Rolf J.; Lücke, Matthias - 2000

The paper discusses the costs and benefits to be expected by least-developed and low-income ("vulnerable") economies if they accede to the WTO, the impact of current debates about WTO reform on vulnerable economies, and measures to make it easier for vulnerable economies to accede to and...

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Globalisierung der Automobilindustrie : neue Standorte auf dem Vormarsch, traditionelle Anbieter unter Druck?

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2000

Der Beitrag analysiert die internationalen Produktionsverlagerungen und Investitionsverflechtungen in der Automobilindustrie, um die These zu überprüfen, dass es selbst bei der Herstellung relativ wissensund technologieintensiver Güter zu einem nachdrängenden Wettbewerb aus Ländern mit...

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Recent patterns of post-conflict aid : did donors help sustain peace?

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2016

Donor reactions to recent settlements of internal conflicts have been highly diverse, in terms of both overall aid and its sectoral composition. The allocation of post-conflict aid tends to be needs-based by favoring particularly poor countries. There is no conclusive evidence, however, that the...

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Shooting the messenger of good news : a critical look at the World Bank's success story of effective aid

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2002

In a report presented at the UN Conference on Financing for Development in March 2002, the World Bank claims that the … policies. However, the World Bank's success story rests on an extremely weak foundation: First, the institution's contribution … the distribution of World Bank financing. Second, the picture portrayed in the report takes a bad turn if only two …

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Do multinational enterprises contribute to convergence or divergence? : A disaggregated analysis of US FDI

Mayer-Foulkes, David (contributor); … - 2005

It is a widely held belief that foreign direct investment (FDI) has a positive effect on economic growth. We test this hypothesis by performing convergence regressions derived from a model of endogenous technological change. We estimate the rate of growth in per-capita income, relative to the...

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