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Coping with Disaster : The Impact of Hurricanes on International Financial Flows, 1970-2002
Yang, Dean - 2006
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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Aid and Growth : What Does the Cross-Country Evidence Really Show?
Rajan, Raghuram G. - 2005
We examine the effects of aid on growth--in cross-sectional and panel data--after correcting for the bias that aid typically goes to poorer countries, or to countries after poor performance. Even after thiscorrection, we find little robust evidence of a positive (or negative) relationship...
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Why World Redistribution Fails
Kopczuk, Wojciech - 2002
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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Does the AIDS Epidemic Really Threaten Economic Growth?
Bloom, David E. - 1995
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/10012473734
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Trust in State and Non-State Actors : Evidence from Dispute Resolution in Pakistan
Acemoglu, Daron - 2018
Lack of trust in state institutions, often due to poor service provision, is a pervasive problem in many developing countries. If this increases reliance on non-state actors for crucial services, the resulting self-reinforcing cycle can further weaken the state. This paper examines whether such...
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Organization of Disaster Aid Delivery : Spending Your Donations
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2011
This paper analyzes how different organizational structures between funding and implementing agencies affect the quality of aid delivered and social agendas pursued across neighboring villages in a set disaster context. We model the implied objective functions and trade-offs concerning aid...
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Do Corrupt Governments Receive Less Foreign Aid?
Alesina, Alberto - 1999
Critics of foreign aid programs argue that these funds often support corrupt governments and inefficient bureaucracies. Supporters argue that foreign aid can be used to reward good governments. This paper documents that there is no evidence that less corrupt governments receive more foreign aid....
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Long Run Effects of Aid : Forecasts and Evidence from Sierra Leone
Casey, Katherine; Glennerster, Rachel; Miguel, Edward; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We evaluate the long-run effects of a decentralized approach to economic development, called community driven development (CDD), a prominent strategy for delivering foreign aid. Notably we revisit a randomized CDD program in Sierra Leone 11 years after launch. We estimate large persistent gains...
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Assistance to the Poor in a Federal System
Brown, Charles - 1985
This paper explores the roles of different levels of government in assisting the poor. Using a model with utility interdependence, the paper presents some theoretical results on how levels of poor relief vary with the extent of mobility of the poor under both centralized and decentralized...
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Optimal Financial Aid Policies for a Selective University
Ehrenberg, Ronald G. - 1982
Recent federal cut-backs of financial support for undergraduates have worsened the financial position of colleges and universities and required them to debate how they will allocate their scarce financial aid resources.Our paper contributes to the debate by providing a model of optimal financial...
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