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Assessing the effectiveness of World Bank investments: The gender dimension
Lauterbach, Claire; Zuckerman, Elaine - 2013
Today it is widely acknowledged that increasing the gender sensitivity of development aid increases its effectiveness. This report evaluates the extent to which the World Bank integrates gender concerns into its policies and investments, pointing out structural, financial and policy gaps that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319959
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We need land first: Identifying local needs for sustainable recovery after the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal
He, Lulu - 2018
the 2015 earthquake in Nepal. A qualitative approach was applied to collecting and processing data which consist of 114 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943869
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Identifying destitution through linked subsets of multidimensionally poor: An ordinal approach
Alkire, Sabina; Seth, Suman - 2015
evolution of multidimensional poverty in Nepal. Our findings show crucial differences between these approaches. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440657
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Migration and the labour market impacts of COVID-19
Barker, Nathan; Davis, C. Austin; López-Peña, Paula; … - 2020
pandemic. We create pre- and post-COVID panel datasets for three populations in Bangladesh and Nepal, leveraging experimental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424126
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Climate shocks, agriculture, and migration in Nepal: Disentangling the interdependencies
Arslan, Aslihan; Egger, Eva-Maria; Mane, Erdgin; … - 2021
survey from Nepal combined with 35 years of rainfall and temperature data, we model migration and agricultural production … increasing uncertainty in weather patterns and a warming climate increase outmigration in rural Nepal. These results are in line …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705329
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Foreign aid for capacity-building to address climate change: Insights and applications
Victor, David - 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 … aid is most likely to be effective are least likely to be present in the countries that are most in need of foreign aid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333677
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Aid and environment in Ghana
Twerefou, Daniel Kwabena - 2013
In this paper we discuss aid and the environment in Ghana. Our analysis indicates that expenditure by the government of Ghana has increased consistently since 2000, with seven sectors weakly linked to the environment taking about 78.9 per cent of all government expenditure. Also, the rate of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333684
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Foreign aid and sustainable fisheries management in sub-Saharan Africa
Akpalu, Wisdom - 2013
The fisheries sector in sub-Saharan Africa has benefitted from high and increasing amounts of foreign aid for over four …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333687
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The ideal of gender justice and the UNSCR 1325. Two case studies: Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo
Hellsten, Sirkku K. - 2013
The paper examines why the efforts to promote gender justice by development aid have not succeeded in dealing with deeply-rooted structural injustices which prevent the realization of social justice and gender equality. The study analyses the implementation of the UNSCR 1325 Women, Peace, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333702
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Development aid in fragile states: Investigating the effectiveness of COVID-19 aid in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Besada, Hany; Akintola, Lukmon - 2023
Drawing from a growing body of literature on development aid in fragile contexts, this paper investigates the effectiveness of COVID-19 aid in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The paper uses the OECD's Principles for Good International Engagement in Fragile States and Situations to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477457