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Does aid support democracy? : a systematic review of the literature
Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; … - 2021
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 studies that explicitly focus on 'democracy aid' as an aggregate … category, its subcomponents (e.g. aid to elections), and 'developmental aid'. Overall, the evidence suggests that i) democracy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422978
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Better policies from policy-selective aid?
Annen, Kurt; Knack, Stephen F. - 2019
This paper shows that the increased policy-selectivity of aid allocations observed in recent years provides recipient countries an incentive to improve policies. The paper estimates that a change in the World Banks Country Policy and Institutional Assessment policy index from 1.5 to 2 for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051940
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How do human rights violations affect poverty and income distribution?
Apergēs, Nikolaos; Cooray, Arusha - 2019
The goal of this paper is to examine the impact of human rights on income distribution and poverty by exploring how both aid and trade can influence poverty and income distribution through human rights. The analysis employs data for 125 countries and uses a number of panel data methods. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012012340
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On the relevance of freedom and entitlement in development : new empirical evidence (1975 - 2007)
Chauffour, Jean-Pierre - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009384799
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The corruption-growth relationship : do political institutions matter?
Saha, Shrabani; Sen, Kunal - 2019
Corruption is widely believed to negatively affect economic growth. However, many East and Southeast Asia countries either achieved or currently are achieving impressively rapid economic growth despite widespread corruption - the 'East Asian Paradox'. Is this negative relationship equally likely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102930
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Foreign aid for capacity-building to address climate change : insights and applications
Victor, David G. - 2013
The paper examines the role of foreign aid in building capacity to address climate change. While the experience with this topic is relatively recent and not yet extensive, analogous questions have arisen in many other areas of foreign aid. It is likely that climate change aid programmes work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009790154
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Political institutions and human development : does democracy fulfill its 'constructive' and 'instrumental' role?
Vollmer, Sebastian (contributor); Ziegler, Maria (contributor) - 2009
performance of democracy is rather independent of the circumstances. However, democracy leads to more redistribution in favor of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003791228
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Democracy and reforms
Amin, Mohammed; Djankov, Simeon - 2009
"The authors use a sample of 147 countries to investigate the link between democracy and reforms. Democracy may be … economic institutions. The results provide robust support for the claim that democracy is good for growth-enhancing reforms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003821004
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Democratic jihad? : Military intervention and democracy
Gleditsch, Nils Petter; Christiansen, Lene Siljeholm; … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003491167
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Emigration and democracy
Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008901838