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Lessons for Japanese foreign aid from research on aid's impact
Addison, Tony; Tarp, Finn - 2015
Japan has an impressive history when it comes to aid, industrial policy, and infrastructure development, both as a …, and recognizing the critical role it played in the development of Japan, is a vital step towards making the real gains aid … technical assistance to project preparation, it can help to provide the public goods that resonate most with Japan's vision of …
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Central Asia after two decades of independence
Pomfret, Richard - 2010
After becoming independent in 1991, the five Central Asian countries pursued differing transition paths from the defunct central planning. This paper analyses the connection between economic policies and performance during the 1990s and 2000s. Performance over the two decades has been determined...
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The effectiveness of foreign aid to women's equality organizations in the MENA : does aid promote women's political participation?
Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina - 2013
In this paper, we address the question of whether official development assistance promotes gender equality in the Middle East and North Africa region by examining the effects of aid to Women's Equality Organizations and Institutions on women's political empowerment, measured by the proportion of...
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The hard challenge of aid co-ordination
Bourguignon, François; Platteau, Jean-Philippe - 2013
Aid co-ordination is a constant theme of discussion among national and international aid agencies in their search for more effectiveness and efficiency in delivering development assistance. This paper seeks to clarify some of the arguments currently made in support of aid co-ordination, and to...
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Aid and environment in Ghana
Twerefou, Daniel Kwabena - 2013
In this paper we discuss aid and the environment in Ghana. Our analysis indicates that expenditure by the government of Ghana has increased consistently since 2000, with seven sectors weakly linked to the environment taking about 78.9 per cent of all government expenditure. Also, the rate of...
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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 and environment in Mozambique
Tomo, Alda; Givá, Nícia - 2014
Mozambique benefits from environmental aid-related funds, but it is still unclear whether donor commitments render directly into projects that are copiously implemented for the purposes stated and what aid flows have actually been doing and are doing in the area of aid and environment in...
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Foreign aid and sustainable fisheries management in sub-Saharan Africa
Akpalu, Wisdom - 2013
The fisheries sector in sub-Saharan Africa has benefitted from high and increasing amounts of foreign aid for over four decades. In the 1990s when evidence emerged that most stocks were overcapitalized and overfished, the effectiveness of fisheries development aid, particularly those directed at...
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The ideal of gender justice and the UNSCR 1325 : two case studies ; Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo
Hellsten, Sirkku K. - 2013
The paper examines why the efforts to promote gender justice by development aid have not succeeded in dealing with deeply-rooted structural injustices which prevent the realization of social justice and gender equality. The study analyses the implementation of the UNSCR 1325 "Women, Peace, and...
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More information, better knowledge? : the effects of information campaigns on aid beneficiaries' knowledge of aid projects
Juan, Alexander de; Hofman, Paul; Koos, Carlo - 2023
Aid beneficiaries know very little about development interventions in their own communities. This lack of transparency and information is likely to reduce beneficiaries' ability and willingness to become active in local development. It may also dampen intended aid effects on beneficiaries'...
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