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The role and changing paradigm of India's assistance to Nepal : case of the education sector
Goyal, Tanu M. - 2019
aid from India. Development aid from India to Nepal has not only been associated with creation of infrastructure in the … training for skill development have been the focal points of India's development cooperation programme. Development aid has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018904
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An econometric analysis of the effectiveness of development finance for the energy sector
Gualberti, Giorgio; Martins, Luís Filipe; Bazilian, Morgan - 2012
most cases, a positive influence on installed base. -- International Aid ; Energy Access ; Aid Effectiveness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687259
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Examining the catalytic effect of aid on domestic resource mobilization for social transfers in low-income countries
Cherrier, Cécile - 2015
, foreign aid actors have been allocating resources to support the expansion of social transfers in low-income countries …. Progress in terms of policy uptake has been slow, and there has been concern over the ability of aid initiatives around social … understanding why governments come to adopt and finance certain types of social transfers - and what role, if any, foreign aid …
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The impact of bilateral investment treaties on FDI inflows into India : some empirical results
Singh, Jaivir; Shreeti, Vatsala; Urdhwareshe, Parnil - 2020
Commencing in the 1990s, India signed a number of bilateral investment treaties (BITs), however, after a spate of adverse investor-state dispute settlements (ISDS), India has recently denounced all its erstwhile investment treaties. New investment treaties now need to be negotiated on the basis...
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Organizational efficiency or bureaucratic quagmire : do quality at entry assessments improve project performance?
Corral, Leonardo; McCarthy, Nancy - 2017
Do quality at entry assessments enhance the delivery of development projects? In this paper we take advantage of approval and execution systems in place at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to examine whether projects that have higher quality at entry-captured through grading scores...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011661665
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Re-imagining money to broaden the future of development finance : what Kenyan community currencies reveal is possible for financing development
Bendell, Jem; Slater, Matthew; Ruddick, William - 2015
This paper argues that it is important to understand the nature of money and its impacts to be able to engage better with currency innovations for sustainable development. The paper focuses on the case of Bangla-Pesa, an alternative currency used in poor urban areas in Kenya, to demonstrate how...
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Development finance for universal energy access
Gualberti, Giorgio; Bazilian, Morgan; Haites, Erik F.; … - 2012
these efforts, a dramatic scaling-up of financing to the energy sector will be required through official development aid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009506349
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Openness and the optimal taxation of foreign know-how
Monge-Naranjo, Alexander - 2016
Developing countries frequently offer tax incentives and even subsidize the entry and operation of foreign firms. I examine the optimality of such policies in an economy where growth is driven by entrepreneurial know-how, a skill that is continuously updated on the basis of the productive ideas...
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Markets, externalities, and the dynamic gains of openness
Monge-Naranjo, Alexander - 2016
Infl ows of foreign knowledge are the key for developing countries to catch up with the world technology frontier. In this paper, I construct a simple tractable model to analyze (a) the incentives of foreign fi rms to bring their know-how to a developing country and (b) the incentives of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011585842
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Climate change adaptation, development, and international financial support : lessons from EU Pre-Accession and Solidarity Funds
Przyluski, Valentin; Hallegatte, Stéphane - 2010
experience to promote its views of adaptation funds. -- Economic Development ; Climate Change Adaptation ; Foreign Aid ; European …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008747740