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China's importance as a major donor outside the traditional Western donors has been increasing and this has helped to … conditionality making China's aid model different to Western donors. China dominates as a donor for Zimbabwe with substantial aid … also going into Uganda and South Africa while South Africa is the darling of Western donors. Chinese funded projects are …
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This paper examines China and Africa co-operation from the angle of structural transformation as a major driver of …, opportunities as well as development finances in Africa's transformation. We review critical parts of China's transformation to see … if these ideas are relevant for Africa. We use empirical evidence from China-Africa co-operation and find that China …
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The paper assesses the multilateral development financing system in the light of the replenishments of three key funds in 2013. It argues that the replenishments showed strong continuing support for each institution, but identifies challenges emerging from the reliance on traditional donors and...
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recipient governments - about Chinese development finance activities in Africa that can be updated and improved through crowd … Africa. Ground-truthing generally revealed close agreement between open-source data and answers to protocol questions from …
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large economic landscapes in Africa, Eurasia, and Latin America, it becomes important to understand how China's own …China is emerging as perhaps the most globally significant development finance provider, going far beyond concessional … foreign aid. With China's initiatives to create and foster new multi-lateral finance institutions, and to work in terms of …
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promises are achievable and therefore deemed credible. Using evidence from the Constituency Development Fund in Kenya, this …
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Japan has an impressive history when it comes to aid, industrial policy, and infrastructure development, both as a country that saw meteoric development of its own, and as a country that has been one of the world's largest donors for decades. Looking towards an uncertain future in which...
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In this paper we update previous work that categorizes foreign aid projects in terms of their likely impact on the natural environment. We then document trends in the global distribution of environmental aid over time and show that environmental aid has increasingly focussed on global...
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poverty. Although it is commonly noted that global poverty is increasingly located within sub-Saharan Africa and in fragile …
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the implementation of the UNSCR 1325 "Women, Peace, and Security" in Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The paper …
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