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The Demographic, Economic and Financial Determinants of International Remittances in Developing Countries
Adams, Richard H., Jr. - 2012
What causes developing countries to receive different levels of international remittances? This paper addresses this … examine the determinants of remittances. The paper finds that the skill composition of migrants does matter in remittance … determination. Countries which export a larger share of high-skilled (educated) migrants receive less per capita remittances than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552366
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What Is Effective Aid? How Would Donors Allocate It?
Kenny, Charles - 2012
There are significant weaknesses in some of the traditional justifications for assuming that aid will foster development. This paper looks at what the cross-country aid effectiveness literature and World Bank Operations Evaluation Department reviews have suggested about effective aid, first in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553827
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International Remittances and the Household : Analysis and Review of Global Evidence
Adams, Richard H., Jr. - 2012
This paper examines the economic impact of international remittances on countries and households in the developing … world. To analyze the country-level impact of remittances, the paper estimates an econometric model based on a new data set … United States, OECD-Europe) are more likely to receive international remittances, and that while the level of poverty in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552567
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Social Assistance and Poverty Reduction in Moldova, 2001-2004 : An Impact Evaluation
Verme, Paolo - 2012
This paper assesses the impact of social assistance benefits on household welfare in Moldova. Ignoring standard issues of impact evaluations such as selection bias, behavioral responses, unobserved heterogeneity and endogeneity, an incidence analysis suggests that increased spending on social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552449
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When Instability Increases the Effectiveness of Aid Projects
Guillaumont, Patrick; Laajaj, Rachid - 2012
The authors assess the effect of economic instability on the success of projects funded by the World Bank using the outcome of the projects, which is a notation of their overall success determined by the Bank's Independent Evaluation Group. It has been argued in macroeconomic studies that aid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553854
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Building or Bypassing Recipient Country Systems : Are Donors Defying the Paris Declaration?
Knack, Stephen - 2013
The 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness sets targets for increased use by donors of recipient country systems for managing aid. It also calls for donors to be more responsive to the quality of recipient country systems: the optimal level of their use, in terms of maximizing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559455
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Enduring Impacts of Aid Quality on Job Choices : The Case of the 2004 Tsunami in Aceh
Nose, Manabu - 2013
After the tsunami in Aceh, Indonesia, the recovery of fishing was limited while non-fishing sectors temporarily expanded. This paper shows that fishermen's ex-post labor supply responses continued to be constrained by the provision of low quality production assets. The average fishing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560119
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Evaluating Aid for Trade : A Survey of Recent Studies
Cadot, Olivier; Fernandes, Ana; Gourdon, Julien - 2014
The demand for accountability in aid-for-trade is increasing but monitoring has focused on case studies and impressionistic narratives. The paper reviews recent evidence from a wide range of studies, recognizing that a multiplicity of approaches is needed to learn what works and what does not....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560847
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When Do Donors Trust Recipient Country Systems?
Knack, Stephen - 2012
The 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness sets targets for increased use by donors of recipient country systems for managing aid. The target is premised on a view that country systems are strengthened when donors trust recipients to manage aid funds, but undermined when donors manage aid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552124
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Identifying Aid Effectiveness Challenges in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States
Ishihara, Yoichiro - 2012
Fragile and conflict-affected states face daunting challenges for development. Aid has a greater importance on development in these states than in others, and therefore aid effectiveness management and delivery of aid bears serious consideration. Despite its significance, aid effectiveness is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552141