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The use of social accountability mechanisms by Syrian diaspora organizations providing aid in the Syrian crisis
Abdel-Samad, Mounah; Flanigan, Shawn Teresa - 2018
This paper presents data from a study of Syrian diaspora organizations providing assistance to conflict-affected Syrians in Europe, the Middle East, and North America. Using interview data from leaders in three Syrian diaspora non-profit organizations, this paper examines the social mechanisms...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010194863
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752790
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The international fiscal implications of global poverty reduction and global public goods provision
Fitzgerald, Edmund V. K. - 2013
The mixed record on the 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets and the focus on global public goods in post-MDG debates questions the future of traditional development co-operation (official development assistance, ODA). Meanwhile, international financial crisis and fiscal retrenchment...
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New estimates of the cost of ending poverty and its global distribution
Sumner, Andrew; Yusuf, Arief Anshory - 2024
This paper makes new estimates of the cost of ending poverty and the global distribution of both the cost and poverty itself. First, the paper discusses definitions of 'ending' poverty, arguing that there is an overemphasis (e.g. SDG 1) on the extreme poverty line which is insufficient for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014582739
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On the impact of external debt and aid on public expenditure allocation in sub-Saharan Africa after the launch of the HIPC initiative
Quattri, Maria; Fosu, Kwasi - 2012
In the wake of the current financial and economic crises, the economies of sub-Saharan Africa find themselves squeezed between likely reductions in official development assistance and the pressing challenge to eradicate poverty. Public expenditure allocation to the social sector and to public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530929
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NGOs and the effectiveness of interventions
Usmani, Faraz; Jeuland, Marc; Pattanayak, Subhrendu - 2018
Interventions in remote, rural settings face high transaction costs. We develop a model of household decision-making to evaluate how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) address these implementation-related challenges and influence intervention effectiveness. To test our model's predictions, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873921
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Improving donor support for urban poverty reduction
Banks, Nicola - 2011
, which houses 60 per cent of the world’s slum dwellers. Donors have been slow to respond to the urban challenge, however …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372924
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009260998
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Aid, employment, and poverty reduction in Africa
Page, John M.; Shimeles, Abebe - 2014
Growth and poverty reduction in Africa are weakly linked. This paper argues that the reason is that Africa has failed to create enough good jobs. Structural transformation - the relative growth of employment in high productivity sectors - has not featured in Africa's post-1995 growth story. As a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010243497