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Malaria control and infant mortality in Africa
Cogneau, Denis; Rossi, Pauline - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011692480
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010247921
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018904
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011783927
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Liberation technology : mobile phones and political mobilization in Africa
Manacorda, Marco; Tesei, Andrea - 2016
Can digital information and communication technology (ICT) foster mass political mobilization? We use a novel geo-referenced dataset for the entire African continent between 1998 and 2012 on the coverage of mobile phone signal together with geo-referenced data from multiple sources on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441476
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Calling for nexus thinking in Africa's energy planning
De Strasser, Lucia - 2017
competition. The situation in Africa is particularly problematic, as the continent lags behind all others in terms of quality and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011695464
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African greenfield investment and the likely effect of the African Continental Free Trade Area
Shingal, Anirudh; Mendez Parra, Maximiliano - 2020
Using sector-level data on bilateral greenfield investment for 198 source and destination countries over 2003-2018 in a structural gravity model, we examine the likely effect of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) on African investment. Conditional general equilibrium estimates from...
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Migration from Africa, the Middle East and European neighbouring countries to the EU : an augmented gravity modelling approach
Mara, Isilda; Landesmann, Michael - 2021
The South-North migration corridor, i.e. migration flows to the EU from Africa, the Middle East and EU neighbouring …-North migration corridor over the period 1995-2020 and explores bilateral mobility patterns from 75 sending countries in Africa, the …
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Potential mobility from Africa, Middle East and EU neighbouring countries to Europe
Mara, Isilda; Landesmann, Michael; Grieveson, Richard - 2021
Migration from Africa and the Middle East to the EU has intensified over the last two decades. Relative differences … that of Africa and the Middle East (young and continuously increasing). Apart from demographic pressures and development … seeks to calculate long-term potential mobility from Africa, the Middle East and Eastern EU neighbouring countries to EU28 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012544920
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Rate of interest, foreign aid and the demand for money : evidence from Bangladesh
Taslim, Mohammad Ali - 1982
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