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Foreign Capital Flows and Economic Development in Africa : The Impact of BRICS versus OECD
Tiruneh, Esubalew Alehegn (ed.); Wamboye, Evelyn (ed.) - 2017
-conventional (BRICS) sources has impacted economic development in Africa over the last two decades. It provides in-depth analyses of the … Chinese Development Finance for Sustained Poverty Alleviation -- 5. Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Change: Does the … Direct Investment Impact on Development -- 8. Cross-Border Capital Flows and Economic Performance: A Sectoral Analysis -- 9 …
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The Power of the Chinese Dragon : Implications for African Development and Economic Growth
Henson, Spencer (ed.); Yap, O. Fiona (ed.) - 2016
This important reader brings together published articles from Palgrave's journal The European Journal of Development … Research on the development between China and Africa as well as emerging national economies in the BRICs group. Topics include … trade relations, investment in sub-Saharan Africa, global politics of development and more. …
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Foreign Aid in China
Zhou, Hong - 2015
cooperation on development-related issues. China’s development experience has resulted in key changes to the relationships and … partnerships between China and donors, from receiving foreign aid to entering into development cooperation. China has provided … developing countries with regard to development issues. In short, foreign aid has changed China. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014021350
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US Economic Development Policies towards the Pacific Rim : Successes and Failures of US Aid
Wiegersma, Nan; Medley, Joseph E. - 2000
US aid interventions have greatly advantaged some countries in their quest for development, but not others. The … extensive development assistance, technology transfers and market access that the United States government granted Taiwan and … South Korea in their development and the aid recently given Costa Rica were important factors in their development successes …
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Poverty, hunger and democracy in Africa : potential and limitations of democracy in cementing multiethnic societies
Bigman, David - 2011
The book evaluates alternative policy options for the African countries to overcome the food crisis and the changing structure of world trade to sustain their impressive growth of the early 2000s.These policies must go beyond economic reforms and seek a solution to the entrenched political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012106207
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The Value Chain of Foreign Aid : Development, Poverty Reduction, and Regional Conditions
Schabbel, Christian (contributor) - 2007
This book assesses the prospects of official development assistance (ODA) for poverty reduction. It analyzes the entire …Despite an improved analytical knowledge of poverty, a complex multilateral transfer system of official development … assistance (ODA), and a list of clearly defined objectives (Millennium Development Goals), poverty reduction in low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013520668
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Achievement Evaluation of IFI Assistance Loans to China (1981–2002)
Hu, Angang (contributor); Hu, Guangyu (contributor) - 2007
Loans from international financial institutions (IFI loans) to China were a very important beginning to China’s opening to the outside world. This book represents the first comprehensive study done in China to evaluate the overall performance of IFI assistance to China from 1981 to 2002. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013521031
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Development Aid : A Fresh Look
Mavrotas, George (ed.); McGillivray, Mark (ed.) - 2009
This book addresses several gaps in knowledge of aid allocation and effectiveness and provides new analytical insights. Topics covered include the interface between aid allocation and perceptions of aid effectiveness, the year-on-year volatility of aid and evaluation of the country-level impacts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054208
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Rentier Capitalism : Disorganised Development and Social Injustice in Pakistan
Ahmed, Shahid - 2016
Since the early 1950s East Asia (China, Taiwan and South Korea) and South-East Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam) have, despite war and other challenges, managed to transform the lives of their people, whereas South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) has lagged...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014019828
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Saving for development : how Latin America and the Caribbean can save more and better
Cavallo, Eduardo A. (ed.); Serebrisky, Tomás (ed.) - Inter-American Development Bank - 2016
Why should people - and economies - save? This book on the savings problem in Latin America and the Caribbean suggests that, while saving to survive the bad times is important, saving to thrive in the good times is what really counts. People must save to invest in health and education, live...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012398045