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paper describes the basic features of MAMS and provides an illustration of its applicability for Ethiopia. "--World Bank web …
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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...
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"An AIDS epidemic threatens Ethiopia with a long wave of premature adult mortality, and thus with an enduring setback … possible in view of Ethiopia's poverty and high background adult mortality, it does cause a permanent, downward displacement of …
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Ethiopia has achieved sustained high growth for more than a decade. At the same time, the country has been facing … the appreciation of the dollar, thereby making Ethiopia's competitiveness and industrialization drive more difficult. In … analysis suggests that Ethiopia needs a more flexible exchange rate policy. A competitive or undervalued exchange rate is …
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In the past 10 years, Ethiopia experienced high and consistent growth, invested in public goods provision to poor …
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This article documents a positive and sizable correlation between the location of historical Christian missions and the allocation of present-day World Bank aid at the grid-cell level in Africa. The correlation is robust to an extensive set of geographical and historical control variables that...
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