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Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?
Doepke, Matthias - 2014
children. Does this imply that targeting transfers to women promotes economic development? Not necessarily. We consider a …
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Economic Development and the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid : A Historical Perspective
Edwards, Sebastian - 2014
In this paper I discuss the effectiveness of foreign aid from a historical perspective. I show that foreign aid is a relatively new concept in economics, and I emphasize the role of exchange rate policies in the foreign aid controversies of the 1970s through 1990s. I show that in the early 1980s...
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Can the West Save Africa?
Easterly, William - 2021
In the new millennium, the Western aid effort towards Africa has surged due to writings by well-known economists, a celebrity mass advocacy campaign, and decisions by Western leaders to make Africa a major foreign policy priority. This survey contrasts the predominant "transformational" approach...
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Making Progress on Foreign Aid
Qian, Nancy - 2014
population well-being and facilitate economic and institutional development. The empirical evidence on its benefits is mixed and …
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The Effect of Aid on Growth : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
Galiani, Sebastian - 2016
Development Association (IDA) has been based partly on whether or not a country is below a certain threshold of per capita income …
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The Unintended Consequences of Ngo-Provided Aid on Government Services in Uganda
Deserranno, Erika; Nansamba, Aisha; Qian, Nancy - 2022
This paper studies the impact of the entry of a large foreign NGO which provides basic health services on the government’s capacity to provide similar services in rural Uganda. In villages with a government health worker at baseline, the NGO hires the government worker in half of the villages...
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Should Aid Reward Performance? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Health and Education in Indonesia
Olken, Benjamin A. - 2012
This paper reports an experiment in over 3,000 Indonesian villages designed to test the role of performance incentives in improving the efficacy of aid programs. Villages in a randomly-chosen one-third of subdistricts received a block grant to improve 12 maternal and child health and education...
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Politics and the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid
Boone, Peter David - 2010
the poor as measured by improvements in human development indicators, but it does increase the size of government. I also …
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Cape Verde and Mozambique as Development Successes in West and Southern Africa
Braga de Macedo, Jorge - 2010
Verde and Mozambique's particular geographical and historical contexts. We hold that development success under globalization … group can usefully be defined as success notwithstanding the inexistence of a universally applicable development model. In …-term development, which allows us to also identify the following common drivers: moving towards a market economy; opening up to …
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Trade, Foreign Investment, and Industrial Policy for Developing Countries
Harrison, Ann E. - 2010
In this paper we explore the popular but controversial idea that developing countries benefit from abandoning policy neutrality vis-a-vis trade, FDI and resource allocation across industries. Are developing countries justified in imposing tariffs, subsidies, and tax breaks that imply distortions...
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