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This paper examines the nature of aid projections in IMF programs with low-income countries. On average, IMF projections of net aid increased sharply in the first year of programs but tapered off in subsequent years. Projections were also significantly more optimistic in countries with low...
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The idea of applying a Cash on Delivery Aid (COD Aid) approach to the health sector has been raised many times …, particularly in relation to addressing malaria, HIV/AIDS, maternal health, and water. After assessing the challenges of applying … COD Aid in the health sector, this paper considers 10 indicators related to reducing child mortality, maternal mortality …
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Health is one of the largest and most complex aid sectors: 16 percent of all aid went to the health sector in 2009 …. While many stress the importance of aid effectiveness, there are limited quantitative analyses of the quality of health aid … donors across 23 indicators of aid effectiveness in health. We present our results, track progress from 2008 to 2009, compare …
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The development business has become much more complex in the past decade, with actors proliferating and collaboration fragmenting. This trend is characteristic of the change from collective action to what the authors term hypercollective action. Such a shift brings new energy and resources to...
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regions. The results indicate that lockdown measures had a negative and statistically significant impact on GDP growth across …
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The British proposal to create an International Finance Facility in order to ‘frontload’ $50 billion in aid per year until 2015 has generated a lot of attention and will likely be a major topic at the G8 meeting this July. But the IFF has also been shrouded in confusion and misconceptions....
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disease burden. This paper examines the implications of this ‘new bottom billion’ for global health efforts and recommends a …, preventable infectious diseases, and health aid response to date; revisits the rationale for health aid through agencies like GAVI …
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In post-conflict Liberia, the National Health Plan set out a process for transitioning from emergency to sustainability … under government leadership. The Liberia Health Sector Pool Fund, which consists of DfID, Irish Aid, UNICEF, and UNHCR, was … associated with managing multiple donor projects, and fostering the leadership of the Liberian Health Ministry by allocating …
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A common objection to results-based programs is that they are somehow more vulnerable to corruption. This paper explains why results-based approaches to foreign aid may be less vulnerable to corruption than the traditional approaches which monitor and track the purchase and delivery of inputs...
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-revolutions that have swept the field of development economics: the rising standards of evidence for measuring impact, the “open data …
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