Similar Search Results

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

Goals for Development : History, Prospects, and Costs

Devarajan, Shantayanan; Miller, Margaret J.; Swanson, … - 2013

The Millennium Development Goals set quantitative targets for poverty reduction and improvements in health, education, gender equality, the environment, and other aspects of human welfare. At existing rates of progress many countries will fall short of these goals. However, if developing...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559580

Aid, Policies, and Growth : Revisiting the Evidence

Burnside, Craig; Dollar, David - 2013

The authors revisit the relationship between aid and growth using a new data set focusing on the 1990s. The evidence supports the view that the impact of aid depends on the quality of state institutions and policies. The authors use an overall measure of institutions and policies popular in the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559666

Finance, Inequality, and Poverty : Cross-Country Evidence

Beck, Thorsten; Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Levine, Ross - 2013

While substantial research finds that financial development boosts overall economic growth, the authors study whether financial development is pro-poor: Does financial development disproportionately raise the income of the poor? Using a broad cross-country sample, the authors find that the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559755

Beyond Aid : New Sources and Innovative Mechanisms for Financing Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ratha, Dilip; Mohapatra, Sanket; Plaza, Sonia - 2012

Given Sub-Saharan Africa's enormous resource needs for growth, poverty reduction, and other Millennium Development Goals, the development community has little choice but to continue to explore new sources of financing, innovative private-to-private sector solutions, and public-private...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552395

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

Aid, Growth, and Real Exchange Rate Dynamics

Devarajan, Shantayanan; Go, Delfin S.; Page, John - 2012

Devarajan, Go, Page, Robinson, and Thierfelder argued that if aid is about the future and recipients are able to plan consumption and investment decisions optimally over time, then the potential problem of an aid-induced appreciation of the real exchange rate (Dutch disease) does not occur. In...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552266

Aid, Service Delivery, and the Millennium Development Goals in an Economy-wide Framework

Bourguignon, Francois; Diaz-Bonilla, Carolina; Lofgren, Hans - 2012

analyze policies aimed at making progress toward the goals, the World Bank has developed a new tool, the Maquette for MDG …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552478

Does IDA Engage in Defensive Lending?

Geginat, Carolin; Kraay, Aart - 2012

Multilateral development banks are frequently accused of "defensive lending," the practice of extending new loans purely in order to ensure that existing loans are repaid. This paper empirically examine this hypothesis using data on lending by and repayments to the International Development...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552775

Regulatory Cooperation, Aid for Trade and the General Agreement on Trade in Services

Hoekman, Bernard; Mattoo, Aaditya - 2012

World Trade Organization. A distinction is made between market access liberalization and the regulatory preconditions for … making national treatment the objective of World Trade Organization services negotiations, thereby clarifying the scope of … World Trade Organization commitments for regulators. Moreover, liberalization by smaller and poorer members of the World …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552899

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last