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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 …

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The impact of adult civic education programmes in developing democracies

Finkel, Steven E. - 2013

Can democracy be taught? Are individuals more likely to embrace democratic values, to learn basic knowledge about …

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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...

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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...

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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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Aid as a second-best solution : seven problems of effectiveness and how to tackle them

Manning, Richard - 2012

Most rich countries developed without aid, and this 'self-development' has some intrinsic advantages. In today's massively unequal world, however, such an approach would imply very low levels of human development for several generations for many poor countries. Aid can therefore usefully be...

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Fiscal composition and aid effectiveness : a political-economy model

Mosley, Paul - 2012

In accounting for the rather gloomy trend of the aid effectiveness literature over the last few years, one explanatory strand has been fiscal, suggesting in particular that aid flows in weak states have tended to erode the taxbase and the structure of institutions. We pursue this idea, tracing...

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Aid effectiveness : opening the black box

Arndt, Channing; Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - 2011

Controversy over the aggregate impact of foreign aid has focused on reduced form estimates of the aid-growth link. The causal chain, through which aid affects developmental outcomes including growth, has received much less attention. We address this gap by: (i) specifying a structural model of...

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General budget support, health expenditures, and neonatal mortality rate : a synthetic control approach

Alavuotunki, Kaisa - 2015

I examine impacts of general budget support in 12 countries using the synthetic control approach. First, I analyse changes in government expenditures on health before and after the introduction of budget support. Second, I look at neonatal mortality (a presumed proxy for improvements in health...

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Does foreign aid harm political institutions?

Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - 2015

The notion that foreign aid harms the institutions of recipient governments remains prevalent. We combine new disaggregated aid data and various metrics of political institutions to re-examine this relationship. Long-run cross-section and alternative dynamic panel estimators show a small...

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