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Flentø, Johnny; Simao, Leonardo Santos - 2020

As a sovereign country, Mozambique initially relied on international solidarity and managed its donor relations well. Donor dependency entailed some loss of agency for the government as it allowed donors to challenge its capacity but never its authority. However, in the last decade, donor...

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Effects of foreign aid on income through international trade

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2019

This paper presents a review of recent studies that estimate the trade effects of foreign aid. It also provides new results obtained using panel data techniques to estimate the direct effects of aid on international trade, accounting for countries' participation in free trade agreements, and the...

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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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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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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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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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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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Aid, social policy, and development

Addison, Tony; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Tarp, Finn - 2015

This paper discusses past and current social policy strategies in the international aid architecture. From the 1990s, aid strategy and policy shifted to put a stronger emphasis on human development. This accelerated with the Millennium Development Goals and will continue under the Sustainable...

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Aid, education policy, and development

Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2015

This paper discusses the recent history of education aid policy. It highlights an important shift in policy thinking in the international aid architecture that has dominated the global education aid agenda since the early 1990s. It argues that Rawlsian principles of social justice, human rights...

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Aid distribution and co-operation in unequal communities

D'Exelle, Ben; Van den Berg, Marrit - 2012

We study the influence of economic inequality on co-operation and aid distribution in community-based development schemes. For this, we organized a field experiment in which community members contributed to a collective effort to attract aid. We find that devolving aid distribution to community...

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