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The study investigates disparities in social development in 144 countries worldwide. In the paper we aim to investigate cross-country differences in social development level in year 2011, as well as to estimate inequalities on the field. Secondly, we assess relative social development level...
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The present study applies purpose-built dynamic computable general equilibrium models for Ghana and Kenya with a disaggregated country-specific representation of the power sector to simulate the prospective medium-run growth and distributional implications associated with a shift towards a...
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This paper provides a critical review of aid effectiveness in Bangladesh . It focuses on the contributions of three major, high-profile donors: the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the Government of Japan (GOJ). In assessing aid effectiveness, the paper uses a qualitative...
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countries experiencing a macroeconomic crisis. We consider the conditionality attached to its loans and why it is convenient in …
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some conditions to ensure the effectiveness of the impact of the financial assistance, which we called conditionality. The … conditionality of aid is not a stable notion, it witnessed several changes since its creation to consolidate developing countries to …
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This paper proposes a model to study how conditional lending and immediate liquidity provision affect incentives for fiscal adjustment in a country facing the risk of sovereign default. Conditional lending provides explicit incentives for fiscal adjustment but immediate liquidity provision is...
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The present study analyzes the impacts of aid conditionality on the country-possession part of governance in Nepal …) understanding conditionality, and (iii) enhancing country-proprietorship. With a specific end goal to know the basic issues of … conditionality and its impacts on the country-possession in benefactor financed exercises. …
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This work aims to provide a detailed assessment of the impact of EU conditionality in the Romanian institutional …
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This paper analyses the European Union pressure in the fight against corruption in the Romanian public administration, using as basis of analysis the evaluations of the European Commission until 2007 and the reports of the post-accession stage, issued in the period 2007-2012, under the...
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This companion paper to Chatelain and Ralf (2012), “Spurious regressions with near-multicollinearity” put their results into the contexts of the history of statistics, of the current publication bias in applied sciences and of the substantive versus statistical significance debate. This...
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