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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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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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White Hats or Don Quixotes? Human Rights Vigilantes in the Global Economy

Elliott, Kimberly Ann - 2001

With the continuing expansion of global economic integration, labor standards in developing countries have become a hot button issue. One result has been a proliferation of efforts to use the market to put pressure directly on multinational corporations to improve wages and working conditions in...

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Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis

Alsan, Marcella - 2020

The respect for and protection of civil liberties are one of the fundamental roles of the state, and many consider civil liberties as sacred and "nontradable." Using cross-country representative surveys that cover 15 countries and over 370,000 respondents, we study whether and the extent to...

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International Migration and Human Rights

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2010

Freedom of movement is considered a basic human right by the majority of countries of the world. As defined in practice, it encompasses the right to move internally within a country, the right to move abroad, and the right to return from abroad. It does not include the right of an individual...

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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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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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Institutions for High-Quality Growth : What They are and How to Acquire Them

Rodrik, Dani - 2000

most effective ones for processing and aggregating local knowledge. Democracy is a meta-institution for building good …

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Democracies Pay Higher Wages

Rodrik, Dani - 1998

-30 percent were Mexico to attain a level of democracy comparable to that prevailing in the U.S …

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Common Interests or Common Polities? Reinterpreting the Democratic Peace

Farber, Henry S. - 1995

The central claim of a rapidly growing literature in international relations is that members of pairs of democratic states are much less likely to engage each other in war or in serious disputes short of war than are members of other pairs of states. Our analysis does not support this claim....

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