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Do Donors Target Aid in Line with the Millennium Development Goals? A Sector Perspective of Aid Allocation
Thiele, Rainer; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Dreher, Axel - eSocialSciences - 2010
fight against HIV/AIDS, have shaped the allocation of aid. However, with respect to other MDGs such as primary education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008677804
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Big Push versus Absorptive Capacity: How to Reconcile the Two Approaches
Guillaumont, Patrick; Jeanneney, Sylviane Guillaumont - eSocialSciences - 2010
In this paper they examine whether absorptive capacity can constitute sufficient justification for rejecting the proposal of a large aid increase to support the ‘big push’. They argue that the probability of a poverty trap exists for many countries, in particular the least developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008677771
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The Composition of Aid and the Fiscal Sector in an Aid-Recipient Economy: A Model
Mavrotas, George; Ouattara, Bazoumana - eSocialSciences - 2010
Building on recent work in the fiscal response literature, the present paper develops a new fiscal response model, which, for the first time in the relevant literature, combines the ideas of both endogenous and disaggregated aid. We endogenized aid on the grounds that the recipient government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008739765
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Aid and Growth Have We Come Full Circle?
Arndt, Channing; Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper first assesses the aid-growth literature with a focus on recent contributions. The aid-growth literature is then framed, for the first time, in terms of the Rubin Causal Model, applied at the macroeconomic level. The results show that aid has a positive and statistically significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493861
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Aid, Public Spending and Human Welfare: Evidence from Quantile Regressions
Gomanee, Karuna; Girma, Sourafel; Morrissey, Oliver - eSocialSciences - 2006
The paper addresses the issues of contribution of aids towards human development and the efficiency of such aids in poorer countries, assessing if there is cross-country evidence for an effective human development by financing public expenditures that increase welfare indicators.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487630
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Participation in a School Incentive Programme in Karnataka
Bernhardt, Sharon - eSocialSciences - 2006
Development education policy has recently focused on school-based recognition and conditional cash transfer programs to … that focus on levels (rather than changes) of achievement can exacerbate inequality in education. In addition, our findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528325
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Civil Conflict and Human Capital Accumulation: The Long Term Effects of Political Violence in Perú
Leon, Gianmarco - eSocialSciences - 2010
.21 less years of education as an adult. In the short-term, the effects are stronger than in the long run. Further, children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008498202
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Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomised Experiments in India
Duflo, Esther; Banerjee, Abhijit; Cole, Shawn; Linden, Leigh - eSocialSciences - 2006
to improve the quality of education in urban slums. A remedial education programme hired young women from the community …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341841
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The Great Education Muddle: State Failure and Judicial Jigsaw
Radhakrishnan, P. - eSocialSciences - 2005
A comprehensive White Paper on India’s higher education policy for a pragmatic programmatic for at least the next 20 … consideration the size of the age-cohort population in the relevant age-groups, and cover all issues relating to higher education … such as ensuring social justice through education for all, relevance of public-private partnership, admission policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005170133
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Report of the Central Advisory Board of Education Committee on Free and Compulsory Education Bill and Other Issues related to Elementary Education
Education, Central Advisory Board of - eSocialSciences - 2006
Education (C.A.B.E.) held on 10-11 August, 2004, a Committee of C.A.B.E. was constituted vide Order dated 8.9.04 of the Ministry … in Art. 21-A of the Constitution, and (b) To examine other issues related to elementary education for achieving the … objective of free and compulsory basic education.†This is its report …
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