Showing 1 - 10 of 67
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
Forty billion dollars of official development assistance during 1991-2012 reduced Ethiopian absolute poverty while underwriting more efficient but exclusionary public institutions. This aid-institutions paradox reflects a strong interest-alignment between major donors pursuing geostrategic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009790161
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
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
dynamic economy-wide models for Ethiopia and Uganda that capture both traditional aspects of the debate (growth linkages and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009545470
Ethiopia is powering ahead with an ambitious energy development strategy, highly reliant on abundant hydropower … reducing vulnerability to variability. -- Ethiopia ; energy development ; hydropower ; climate change ; economics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009728162
This study links a multi-sectoral regionalized dynamic computable general equilibrium model of Ethiopia with a system … change towards 2050. In the absence of externally funded policy-driven adaptation investments Ethiopia's GDP in the 2040s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009728163
Food prices increased significantly in 2007 - 08 in Ethiopia due to several supply- and demand-side factors. The … ; Ethiopia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009690763
We use census panel data on Ethiopian manufacturing firms to analyze the connections between enterprise agglomeration, firm-level output prices and physical productivity. We find a negative and statistically significant relationship between the agglomeration of firms that produce a given product...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009628925
. -- household efficiency ; intra-household models ; experimental games ; Ethiopia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009704216