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Yokohama Development Knowledge Sourcebook
World Bank Group - 2018
not been fully documented and is not known outside Japan. This research aims to address that gap. More broadly, it aims to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645725
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Diaspora externalities : a view from the South
Rapoport, Hillel - 2018
investments, and the diffusion of knowledge as well as technology across borders. A second section looks at the cultural sway of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011806518
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A new institutionalist analysis on emerging donorship : explaining the rise of the knowledge dimension in the South Korean aid regime
Yi, Jisun - 2015
developmental experience with the rest of the world. South Korea's knowledge sharing projects are the leading example of … the knowledge dimension. This research highlights the particular statist developmentalism - as major bureaucratic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283000
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Development Economics as Taught in Developing Countries
McKenzie, David J. - 2015
This paper uses a combination of survey questions to instructors and data collected from course syllabi and examinations to examine how the subject of development economics is taught at the undergraduate and masters levels in developing countries, and benchmark this against undergraduate classes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246592
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North-South Knowledge Sharing on Incentive-based Conditional Cash Transfer Programs
Aber, Lawrence - 2011
-poverty initiatives in the developing world. Inspired particularly by Mexico's successful program, CCTs are viewed as an effective way to … the relevance and replicability of these lessons in other contexts. The paper concludes with a call for further knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247769
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Climate change and developing country interests : cases from the Zambezi River Basin
Arndt, Channing; Chinowsky, Paul; Fant, Charles; … - 2015
We consider the interplay of climate change impacts, global mitigation policies, and the interests of developing countries to 2050. Focusing on Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia, we employ a structural approach to biophysical and economic modeling that incorporates climate uncertainty and allows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390407
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Global poverty, aid, and middle-income countries : are the country classifications moribund or is global poverty in the process of 'nationalizing'?
Sumner, Andrew - 2013
The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary … first is that the thresholds used to classify countries by the World Bank and extensively used by aid agencies, albeit with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752790
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Global collective action in health : the WDR+20 landscape of core and supportive functions
Blanchet, Nathan (contributor) - 2014
This paper discusses shifts in development assistance for health (DAH) since 1990, analyses the nature of the current distribution of funding, and considers future implications. Based on Jamison et al. (1998) and Frenk and Moon (2013), we introduce an ‘essential functions’ framework, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230926
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Another look at foreign aid
Ranis, Gustav - 2013
The foreign aid landscape has undergone a paradigm shift in the last few decades, with changes in the behaviour of 'traditional' donors and a new focus on selectivity in aid disbursement, as well as 'new' donors and South-South co-operation playing an increasingly important role. Amidst these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010194863
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Environmental and climate finance in a new world : how past environmental aid allocation impacts future climate aid
Marcoux, Christopher; Parks, Bradley; Peratsakis, … - 2013
In this paper we update previous work that categorizes foreign aid projects in terms of their likely impact on the natural environment. We then document trends in the global distribution of environmental aid over time and show that environmental aid has increasingly focussed on global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010200830