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Does aid support democracy? : a systematic review of the literature
Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; … - 2021
literature on aid and democracy. It asks: Does aid-especially democracy aid-have positive impact on democracy? How? What factors … most influence its impact? In so doing, it considers studies that explicitly focus on 'democracy aid' as an aggregate … category, its subcomponents (e.g. aid to elections), and 'developmental aid'. Overall, the evidence suggests that i) democracy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422978
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How do human rights violations affect poverty and income distribution?
Apergēs, Nikolaos; Cooray, Arusha - 2019
The goal of this paper is to examine the impact of human rights on income distribution and poverty by exploring how both aid and trade can influence poverty and income distribution through human rights. The analysis employs data for 125 countries and uses a number of panel data methods. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012012340
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The global equity premium revisited : what human rights Imply for assets’ purchasing power
Białkowski, Je̜drzej; Ronn, Ehud I. - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011886648
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The international anti-gender movement : understanding the rise of anti-gender discourses in the context of development, human rights and social protection
McEwen, Haley; Narayanaswamy, Lata - 2023
In this working paper, we interrogate the ways anti-gender, or "pro-family", actors and organizations are using the frameworks and language of "development" to advance arguments and policies that restrict the rights of LGBTIQ+ people and seek to limit how we understand sexual and reproductive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014315122
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Disentangling the knot: identifying U.S. and global exposure to Xinjiang cotton
Carlson, Dylan; Weaver, Marin - 2022
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Party age and party color : new results on the political economy of redistribution and inequality
Keefer, Philip; Milanović, Branko - 2014
This working paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries, including 20 Latin American countries, to explore the effects of political parties on redistribution. First, consistent with a central, but still contested, assumption of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011290253
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The corruption-growth relationship : do political institutions matter?
Saha, Shrabani; Sen, Kunal - 2019
Corruption is widely believed to negatively affect economic growth. However, many East and Southeast Asia countries either achieved or currently are achieving impressively rapid economic growth despite widespread corruption - the 'East Asian Paradox'. Is this negative relationship equally likely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102930
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Has the other shoe dropped? : Ethiopia's rise and fall as U.S. supplier of Sub-Saharan African footwear
Stubblefield, Katherine; Roop, Mary - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013263306
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What does the OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2017-2026 imply for income distribution in the Sudan and Ethiopia
Artavia, Marco; Siddig, Khalid Hassan Ali - 2020
paths for the Sudan and Ethiopia on the structures of the economies and the distribution of incomes among the different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012300543
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Foreign aid for capacity-building to address climate change : insights and applications
Victor, David G. - 2013
The paper examines the role of foreign aid in building capacity to address climate change. While the experience with this topic is relatively recent and not yet extensive, analogous questions have arisen in many other areas of foreign aid. It is likely that climate change aid programmes work...
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