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The role and changing paradigm of India's assistance to Nepal : case of the education sector
Goyal, Tanu M. - 2019
India is seen as a key developmental partner to Nepal with the latter being one of the first receipts of development aid from India. Development aid from India to Nepal has not only been associated with creation of infrastructure in the country but also with human capital development and...
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Is results-based aid more effective than conventional aid? : evidence from the health sector in El Salvador
Bernal, Pedro; Celhay, Pablo; Martinez, Sebastian - 2018
Results-based aid (RBA) models link funds to outcomes, rather than paying for inputs. Despite their theoretical appeal and recent adoption by donors and multilateral development banks, there is limited empirical evidence supporting this form of aid for national governments. We estimate the...
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The politics of foreign aid
Meyer, Wolfgang; Raimondos-Møller, Pascalis - 1999
Why do donor countries give foreign aid? The answers found in the literature are: (i) because donor countries care for recipient countries (e.g. altruism), and/or (ii) because there exist distortions that make the indirect gains from foreign aid (e.g. terms of trade effects) to be larger than...
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Aid, exports, and growth : a time-series perspective on the Dutch disease hypothesis
Kang, Joong Shik; Prati, Alessandro; Rebucci, Alessandro - 2010
The available evidence on the effects of aid on growth is notoriously mixed. We use a novel empirical methodology, a heterogeneous panel vector-autoregression model identified through factor analysis, to study the dynamic response of exports, imports, and per capita GDP growth to a global aid...
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Foreign aid as counterterrorism policy
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Sandler, Todd; Younas, Javed - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831934
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Foreign direct investment, aid, and terrorism : an analysis of developing countries
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Sandler, Todd; Younas, Javed - 2011
Using a dynamic panel data framework, we investigate the relationship between the two major forms of terrorism and … focuses on 78 developing countries for 1984- 2008. Our findings suggest that all types of terrorism depress FDI. In addition …, aid mitigates the negative effects of total and domestic terrorism on FDI; however, this is not the case for transnational …
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Central Asia oil and gas industry - the external powers' energy interests in Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
Raimondi, Pier Paolo - 2019
After the Soviet breakup, Central Asia has gained importance for several States because of its geographical location and abundance of hydrocarbon reserves. These hydrocarbon reserves are located mainly in three countries: Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Each of them has taken different...
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Aid flows and policy reform : a general equilibrium analysis of adjustment and the poor in the Gambia
Dorosh, Paul - 1993
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Integrated approaches to addressing drugs and development challenges in Myanmar's borderlands
Meehan, Patrick - 2022
borderland regions, considering that protracted armed conflict, chronic poverty, humanitarian emergencies, state failure, and … to combine efforts to reduce opium cultivation with a wider set of rural development strategies aimed at tackling poverty …
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"Food can't be traded" : civil society's discursive power in the context of agricultural liberalisation in India
Parguel, Camile; Graz, Jean-Christophe - 2021
Bilateral and regional free trade agreements increasingly substitute for the World Trade Organization in trade negotiations. Accordingly, civil society organisations opposed to trade liberalisation target this new generation of trade agreements as well. This paper examines the case of activists...
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