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Macroeconomic determinants of exit from aid-dependence
Hailu, Degol; Shiferaw, Admasu - 2012
This paper analyses macroeconomic aspects of exit from aid-dependence. By 'exit from aid', we mean substantial and enduring decline over time in Official Development Assistance (ODA) as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The relevant macroeconomic variables are identified by systematically...
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Foreign aid, fertility and populations growth: Evidence from Africa
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2009
This article investigates the relationship between foreign aid and population growth in sub-Saharan Africa. The work considers population growth rate and a directly related to fertility demographic indicator - total fertility rate. Using a panel of 43 African countries over the last four decades...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335970
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Decentralizing aid with interested parties
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2006
This paper analyzes the decentralization of decision-making in aid-giving in a theoretical rent-seeking framework. In this analysis the root donor establishes a necessary criterion for potential recipients: good governance. The potential recipients compete in hierarchal contests for funds. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266336
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The hope for hysteresis in foreign aid
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2006
We argue that a purpose of foreign aid is to whet the appetite of the recipient in order to bring about a long term commitment to what the donor perceives as a need, but which the recipient may rank lower down on his list of undertakings, or may be sufficiently resource constrained as to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266355
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Foreign Aid and Enlightened Leaders
Hodler, Roland; Raschky, Paul A. - 2010
To study whether foreign aid fuels personal, regional and ethnic favoritism, we use satellite data on nighttime light for any region in any aid-recipient country, and we determine for each year and each country the region in which the current political leader was born. Having a panel with 22,850...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430087
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Growing into and out of Social Conflict
Harms, Philipp; Zink, Stefan - 2002
We present a model of growth and distributional conflict that implies a non-monotonic relationship between average …
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Preparing for genocide: Community work in Rwanda
Bonnier, Evelina; Poulsen, Jonas; Rogall, Thorsten; … - 2015
How do political elites prepare the civilian population for participation in violent conflict? We empirically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406158
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Violent conflict and the child quantity-quality tradeoff
Nepal, Apsara Karki; Halla, Martin; Stillman, Steven - 2018
experienced a ten year long civil conflict of varying intensity. We exploit that villages affected by the conflict had the same … trend in fertility as non-affected villages prior to the onset of conflict and employ a difference-in-differences estimator …. We find that women in affected villages increased their actual and desired fertility during the conflict by 22 percent …
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Oil and civil conflict: On and off (shore)
Andersen, Jørgen Juel; Nordvik, Frode Martin; Tesei, Andrea - 2017
We reconsider the relationship between oil and conflict, focusing on the location of oil resources. In a panel of 132 … countries over the period 1962-2009, we show that oil windfalls increase the probability of conflict in onshore-rich countries …, while they decrease this probability in offshore-rich countries. We use a simple model of conflict to illustrate how these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011927977
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Reputation, social identity and social conflict
Smith, John - 2007
matched to play a reduced form bargaining game. We show that this struggle for resources drives a conflict through the … consequences. We show that rational players can contribute to the conflict by aggressively discriminating and that this behavior is … relates to the social conflict literature, which examines the relationship between macro level factors such as unemployment …
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