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The Determinants of Food Aid Provisions to Africa and the Developing World
Nunn, Nathan - 2014
We examine the supply-side and demand-side determinants of global bilateral food aid shipments between 1971 and 2008. First, we find that domestic food production in developing countries is negatively correlated with subsequent food aid receipts, suggesting that food aid receipt is partly driven...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109859
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Coping with Disaster : The Impact of Hurricanes on International Financial Flows, 1970-2002
Yang, Dean - 2007
How well do countries cope with the aftermath of natural disasters? In particular, do international financial flows help buffer countries in the wake of disasters? This paper focuses on hurricanes (one of the most common and destructive types of disasters), and examines the impact of hurricane...
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Does the Aids Epidemic Really Threaten Economic Growth?
Bloom, David E.; Mahal, Ajay S. - 2021
This study examines the claim that the AIDS epidemic will slow the pace of economic growth. We do this by examining the association, across fifty-one developing and industrial countries for which we were able to assemble data, between changes in the prevalence of AIDS and the rate of growth of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218100
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Aid and Growth : What Does the Cross-Country Evidence Really Show?
Rajan, Raghuram G.; Subramanian, Arvind - 2021
We examine the effects of aid on growth in cross-sectional and panel data—after correcting for the possible bias that poorer (or stronger) growth may draw aid contributions to recipient countries. Even after this correction, we find little robust evidence of a positive (or negative)...
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Why World Redistribution Fails
Slemrod, Joel B.; Kopczuk, Wojciech; Yitzhaki, Shlomo - 2021
An optimal linear world income tax that maximizes a border-neutral social welfare function provides a drastic reduction … in world consumption inequality, dropping the Gini coefficient from 0.69 to 0.25. In contrast an optimal decentralized (i ….e., within countries) redistribution has miniscule effect on world income inequality. Thus, the traditional public finance …
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Politics and the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid
Boone, Peter David - 2010
Critics of foreign aid programs have long argued that poverty reflects government failure. In this paper I analyze the effectiveness of foreign aid programs to gain insights into political regimes in aid recipient countries. My analytical framework shows how three stylized political/economic...
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Aiding Conflict : The Impact of U.S. Food Aid on Civil War
Nunn, Nathan - 2013
This paper examines the effect of U.S. food aid on conflict in recipient countries. To establish a causal relationship, we exploit time variation in food aid caused by fluctuations in U.S. wheat production together with cross-sectional variation in a country's tendency to receive any food aid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091739
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Protecting Infants from Natural Disasters : The Case of Vitamin a Supplementation and a Tornado in Bangladesh
Gunnsteinsson, Snaebjorn - 2019
Severe environmental shocks have grown in frequency and intensity due to climate change. Can policy protect against the often devastating human impacts of these shocks, particularly for vulnerable populations? We study this question by leveraging data from a situation in which a tornado tore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867648
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Protecting Infants from Natural Disasters : The Case of Vitamin A Supplementation and a Tornado in Bangladesh
Gunnsteinsson, Snaebjorn - 2019
Severe environmental shocks have grown in frequency and intensity due to climate change. Can policy protect against the often devastating human impacts of these shocks, particularly for vulnerable populations? We study this question by leveraging data from a situation in which a tornado tore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867780