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Gesture politics or real commitment? : gender inequality and the allocation of aid
Dreher, Axel; Gehring, Kai; Klasen, Stephan - 2013
Donors of foreign aid increasingly claim to consider gender inequality in the recipient countries to be a serious concern. While aid specifically to promote gender equality receives only a tiny share of aid budgets, allocations to education, health, and civil society projects could be affected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009784721
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Consequences of aid volatility for macroeconomic management and aid effectiveness
Hudson, John - 2012
This paper reviews both the literature on aid volatility and also adds to that literature. In general, the focus of this literature has been on the volatility of overall aid, while we focus more on the volatility of the individual aid sectors, e.g., education aid. In doing this, detailed use is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516697
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Aid and violence reduction
Hoeffler, Anke - 2023
armed conflict in 2021. The international development community has identified armed conflict as an impediment to …, homicide, and assault, are vastly more prevalent and far more widely distributed across countries than armed conflict. For some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372880
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The legacies of armed conflict : insights from stayees and returning forced migrants
Ruiz, Isabel; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2022
How does conflict, displacement, and return shape trust, reconciliation, and community engagement? And what is the … legacies of armed conflict and the differences between those who stayed in their communities of origin during the conflict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012816250
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Frontier rule and conflict
Malik, Muhammad Adeel; Ali Mirza, Rinchan; Rehman, Faiz Ur - 2023
We examine whether frontier rule, which disallows frontier residents from a recourse to formal institutions of conflict …km-by10km grid cell-level data on conflict in a spatial regression discontinuity design framework, we show that areas … conflict management, led to a sharp surge in attacks against state targets in frontier areas. We show that the surge in …
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Does foreign aid harm political institutions?
Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - 2015
The notion that foreign aid harms the institutions of recipient governments remains prevalent. We combine new disaggregated aid data and various metrics of political institutions to re-examine this relationship. Long-run cross-section and alternative dynamic panel estimators show a small...
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The impact of adult civic education programmes in developing democracies
Finkel, Steven E. - 2013
Can democracy be taught? Are individuals more likely to embrace democratic values, to learn basic knowledge about political processes, and to engage the political process more effectively as a result of their exposure to donor-sponsored civic education programmes in emerging democracies? After...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009753316
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Does foreign aid in education foster gender equality in developing countries?
Maiga, Eugenie W. H. - 2014
This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries. Heterogeneity effects by type of aid received and by type of recipients are investigated using system GMM methods. The results indicate that aggregate aid disbursements to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246745
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A review of external assistance and aid effectiveness for maternal and child health : challenges and opportunities
Bhutta, Zulfiqar Ahmed; Aleem, Samia - 2013
This paper primarily focuses on how global funding has supported interventions that have proven to be successful in reducing maternal, newborn, and child mortality around the world. The growth rate of development assistance targeted towards these specific interventions has varied greatly over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010190156
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Does aid support democracy? : a systematic review of the literature
Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; … - 2021
This study draws on a rigorous systematic review-to our knowledge the first in this area-to take stock of the literature on aid and democracy. It asks: Does aid-especially democracy aid-have positive impact on democracy? How? What factors most influence its impact? In so doing, it considers...
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