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The effectiveness of foreign aid to education: What can be learned?

Riddell, Abby - 2012

This paper reviews what has been learned over many decades of foreign aid to education. It discusses what works and what does not and in this discussion draws attention to the fact that even a simple assessment requires more than providing a uniform check-list of inputs. It shows the positive...

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Aid, social policy, and development

Addison, Tony; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Tarp, Finn - 2015

This paper discusses past and current social policy strategies in the international aid architecture. From the 1990s, aid strategy and policy shifted to put a stronger emphasis on human development. This accelerated with the Millennium Development Goals and will continue under the Sustainable...

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Aid, education policy, and development

Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2015

This paper discusses the recent history of education aid policy. It highlights an important shift in policy thinking in the international aid architecture that has dominated the global education aid agenda since the early 1990s. It argues that Rawlsian principles of social justice, human rights...

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General budget support, health expenditures, and neonatal mortality rate: A synthetic control approach

Alavuotunki, Kaisa - 2015

I examine impacts of general budget support in 12 countries using the synthetic control approach. First, I analyse changes in government expenditures on health before and after the introduction of budget support. Second, I look at neonatal mortality (a presumed proxy for improvements in health...

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Conflict and cooperation in managing international water resources

Barrett, Scott - 1994

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Can institutions resolve ethnic conflict?

Easterly, William - 2000

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The seasonality of conflict

Guardado, Jenny; Pennings, Steven - 2020

This paper investigates whether poor employment prospects of potential insurgents help to fuel conflict. The paper … benefits are unobserved. In contrast, many other shocks in the conflict literature are persistent and unanticipated, thus also … estimates of the effect of harvest shocks on conflict intensity in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan using subnational variation …

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Climate change and developing country interests: Cases from the Zambezi River Basin

Arndt, Channing; Chinowsky, Paul; Fant, Charles; … - 2015

We consider the interplay of climate change impacts, global mitigation policies, and the interests of developing countries to 2050. Focusing on Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, we employ a structural approach to biophysical and economic modeling that incorporates climate uncertainty and allows...

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Industrialization in developing countries: Is it related to poverty reduction?

Erumban, Abdul Azeez; De Vries, Gaaitzen J. - 2021

This paper proposes an empirical framework that relates poverty reduction to production growth. We use the GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database to measure the contribution to growth of productivity improvements within sectors and structural change-the reallocation of workers across...

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Growth, inequality, and poverty reduction in developing countries: Recent global evidence

Fosu, Augustin Kwasi - 2011

The study presents recent global evidence on the transformation of economic growth to poverty reduction in developing countries, with emphasis on the role of income inequality. The focus is on the period since the early/mid-1990s when growth in these countries as a group has been relatively...

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