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Banking on the poor? : branch placement and non-farm rural development in Bangladesh
Ravallion, Martin - 1997
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Social rights and economics : claims to health care and education in developing dountries
Gauri, Varun - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523429
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Poverty and inequality during structural adjustment in rural Tanzania
Ferreira, M. Luisa - 1996
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The impact of the AIDS epidemic on the health of the elderly in Tanzania
Ainsworth, Martha - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523985
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Implications of WTO agreements and unilateral trade policy reforms for poverty in Bangladesh : short versus long-run impacts
Annabi, Nabil - 2006
poverty in Bangladesh. They use a sequential dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, which takes into account … accumulation effects, allowing for long-run analysis. The study is based on the 2000 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) of Bangladesh … scenario has negative implications for the overall macroeconomy, household welfare, and poverty in Bangladesh. Terms of trade …
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Determinants of international emergency aid : humanitarian need only?
Fink, Guenther - 2009
"The authors use an original data set covering more than 400 recent natural disasters to analyze the determinants of international emergency aid. Although humanitarian need is a major determinant of emergency relief payments, the results imply that political and strategic factors play a crucial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394133
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How can donors help build global public goods in health ?
Das Gupta, Monica - 2009
"Aid to developing countries has largely neglected the population-wide health services that are core to communicable disease control in the developed world. These mostly non-clinical services generate "pure public goods" by reducing everyone's exposure to disease through measures such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394201
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Aid, service delivery, and the Millennium Development Goals in an economy-wide framework
Bourguignon, François - 2008
"In many developing countries, achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 will require significant increases in expenditures on social services and in foreign assistance. It will also require careful planning of the sector allocation and sequencing of public spending. Especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521076
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Does aid help improve economic institutions ?
Coviello, Decio - 2006
"Aid is expected to promote better living standards by raising investment and growth. But aid may also affect institutions directly. In theory, these effects may or may not work in the same direction as those on investment. The authors examine the effect of aid on economic institutions and find...
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Improving the dynamics of aid : towards more predictable budget support
Eifert, Benn - 2005
"This paper considers approaches towards improving the predictability of aid to low income countries, with a special focus on budget support. In order to accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals, the donor community is increasing aid flows while pushing for more coordination...
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