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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 …

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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 …

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Inequality, income and poverty : comparative global evidence

Fosu, Augustin Kwasi - 2010

Analysing a large sample of 1980 - 2004 unbalanced panel data, the current study presents comparative global evidence on the role of (income) inequality in poverty reduction. The evidence involves both an indirect channel via the tendency of high inequality to decrease the rate at which income...

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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...

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Needs vs expediency : poverty reduction and social development in post-conflict countries

Addison, Tony; Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Niño-Zarazúa, … - 2015

Conflict depletes all forms of human and social capital, as well as supporting institutions. The scale of the human damage can overwhelm public action, as there are many competing priorities and resources are often insufficient. What then should be the priorities for 'post-conflict' policy?...

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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 …

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Gesture politics or real commitment? : gender inequality and the allocation of aid

Dreher, Axel; Gehring, Kai; Klasen, Stephan - 2013

Donors of foreign aid increasingly claim to consider gender inequality in the recipient countries to be a serious concern. While aid specifically to promote gender equality receives only a tiny share of aid budgets, allocations to education, health, and civil society projects could be affected...

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