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Aid, debt relief and new sources of finance for meeting the millennium development goals

Addison, Tony; Mavrotas, George; McGillivray, Mark - 2005

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have lofty expectations regarding the impact of official development aid. Are these expectations valid? This paper surveys the literature on aid and growth. It finds that practically all aid studies since the late 1990s conclude that aid increases economic...

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Is the international community helping to recreate the pre-conditions for war in Sierra Leone?

Hanlon, Joseph - 2005

‘In a very real sense, the conditions that spawned the war and inflicted gruesome casualties on Sierra Leone’s citizens have not disappeared’, warned the International Crisis Group. In this paper we argue that many of those conditions are being recreated. The same old men who were...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284702

Development assistance and development finance: Evidence and global policy agendas

Addison, Tony; Mavrotas, George; McGillivray, Mark - 2005

Understanding the development effects of official aid is crucial to building a better bridge between research and policy. This paper reviews the current evidence regarding the impact of aid on growth and poverty reduction, and develops a new narrative. In the light of this narrative, the paper...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284750

Diamonds, foreign aid, and the uncertain prospects for post-conflict reconstruction in Sierra Leone

Grant, J. Andrew - 2005

This article examines the external and internal dimensions of post-conflict reconstruction in Sierra Leone. The United Nations, bilateral donors such as the United Kingdom, and transnational non-governmental organizations and aid agencies have been instrumental in providing much-needed external...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284783

The fiscal effects of aid in Ghana

Osei, Robert; Morrissey, Oliver; Lloyd, Tim - 2005

An important feature of aid to developing countries is that it is given to the government. As a result, aid should be expected to affect fiscal behaviour, although theory and existing evidence is ambiguous regarding the nature of these effects. This paper applies techniques developed in the...

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Aid and growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Accounting for transmission mechanisms

Gomanee, Karuna; Girma, Sourafel; Morrissey, Oliver - 2005

This paper is a contribution to the literature on aid and growth. Despite an extensive empirical literature in this area, existing studies have not addressed directly the mechanisms via which aid should affect growth. We identify investment as the most significant transmission mechanism, and...

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Food retailing, supermarkets and food security: Highlights from Latin America

Arda, Mehmet - 2006

The importance of supermarkets in the world food economy has increased radically since the early 1990s. They are now major sellers and buyers of food items not only in developed but also in developing countries. Urbanization and the liberalization of the services sector have been important...

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Household access to microcredit and children's food security in rural Malawi: A gender perspective

Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb; Hazarika, Gautam - 2007

Using data from the 1995 Malawi Financial Markets and Food Security Survey, this study seeks to discover if women …’s relative control over household resources or intra-household bargaining power in rural Malawi, gauged by their access to … subsidiary finding that it raises household expenditure on food. – microcredit ; gender ; food security ; Malawi …

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The public distribution systems of foodgrains and implications for food security: A comparison of the experiences of India and China

Zhou, Zhang-Yue; Wan, Guanghua - 2006

A comparative study of the public distribution systems of foodgrains in India and China is expected to reveal lessons and experiences that are valuable to policymakers. This is particularly important for developing countries in their endeavour to ensure food security. This paper undertakes such...

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Globalization and rural poverty: A perspective from a social observatory in the Philippines

Hayami, Yujiro - 2006

Using a rice village in the Philippines as a social observatory, the impacts of modernization forces under globalization on rural poverty are assessed based on data collected from recurrent household surveys over the past three decades. After cultivation frontiers closed in the early 1950s...

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