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Occupational choice of skilled workers in the presence of a large development sector: Evidence from Sierra Leone
Harris, Jamelia - 2019
Using data from Sierra Leone, I explore the role of cognitive ability in sorting across sectors and the importance of perceptions in the employment decision-making process. Crucial to the analysis is the introduction of the aid-industry/development sector as a 'third sector', which is shown to...
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Foreign aid in dangerous places: The donors and Mali's democracy
van de Walle, Nicolas - 2012
Mali long seemed a model, low-income democracy. Yet, in a few short weeks in early 2012, more than half of the territory came under the military control of an Islamist secessionist movement, and a military coup deposed the democratically-elected government in the capital. Given the substantial...
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Impact of foreign aid on economic growth in Sierra Leone: Empirical analysis
Kargbo, Philip Michael - 2012
This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on economic growth in Sierra Leone, a country where an empirical econometric study on aid effectiveness is yet to exist. Using a triangulation of approaches involving the ARDL bounds test approach and the Johansen maximum likelihood approach to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333088
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The real exchange rate, foreign aid and macroeconomic transmission mechanisms in Tanzania and Ghana
Juselius, Katarina; Reshid, Adbulaziz; Tarp, Finn - 2013
A recent study of 36 sub-Saharan African countries found a positive impact of aid in the absolute majority of these countries. However, for Tanzania and Ghana, two major aid recipients, aid did not seem to have been equally beneficial. This paper singles out these two countries for a more...
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The long-run impact of foreign aid in 36 African countries: Insights from multivariate time series analysis
Juselius, Katarina; Framroze Møller, Niels; Tarp, Finn - 2011
Studies of aid effectiveness abound in the literature, often with opposing conclusions. Since most time-series studies use data from the exact same publicly available data bases, our claim here is that such differences in results must be due to the use of different econometric models and...
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Does foreign aid promote democracy? Aid, democracy, and instability from trade
Kangoye, Thierry - 2011
This study revisits the effect of aid on the quality of institutions and examines the effects of a major source of instability, namely terms-of-trade instability, on the quality of democracy. We take advantage of previous empirical findings which explain the role of aid in mitigating the adverse...
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Aid and income: Another time-series perspective
Lof, Matthijs; Mekasha, Tseday Jemaneh; Tarp, Finn - 2013
In a recent article, Nowak-Lehmann, Dreher, Herzer, Klasen, and Martínez-Zarzoso (2012) (henceforth NDHKM) conclude that foreign aid has not had a significant effect on income, based on evidence from panel data potentially covering 131 countries over the period 1960-2006. The present study...
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Aid and poverty: Why does aid not address poverty (much)?
Shepherd, Andrew; Bishop, Sylvia - 2013
not worked well. Aid to conflict-affected countries is itself in crisis. Much greater and more integrated aid is called …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319829
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Livelihood decisions under the shadow of conflict in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh
Badiuzzaman, Muhammad; Cameron, John; Murshed, Syed Mansoob - 2013
We analyse rural household livelihood and children's school enrolment decisions in a post-conflict setting in the … show that heightened subjective perceptions of future violence and past actual experiences of conflict influences current … theories of risk. Furthermore, a post-conflict household-level Phoenix or economic revival factor may be in operation, based in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319784
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Entrepreneurship and violent conflict in developing countries
Brück, Tilman; Naudé, Wim; Verwimp, Philip - 2013
In this working paper we provide an overview of two recent special journal issues on violent conflict and … Journal of Conflict Resolution (2013), devoted to the impact of violent conflict on entrepreneurship in developing countries …. In the overview we start by defining entrepreneurship and conflict, and provide a succinct summary of the existing …
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