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The multilateral aid system : an assessment following the major replenishments of 2013
Manning, Richard - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010404599
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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 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307928
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Environmental and climate finance in a new world : how past environmental aid allocation impacts future climate aid
Marcoux, Christopher; Parks, Bradley; Peratsakis, … - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010200830
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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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The World Bank's health projects in Timor-Leste : the political economy of effective aid
Rosser, Andrew; Bremner, Sharna - 2013
The World Bank's health sector projects in Timor-Leste - the Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project and … of the Bank's experience for our understanding of the conditions that lead to effective aid in fragile contexts. Much … resistance to the World Bank's health policy agenda compared to its policy agenda in other sectors. In terms of wider lessons, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010187171
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Multilateral development aid : assessing the major replenishments of 2016
Manning, Richard - 2017
This survey of the 2016 replenishments of three multilateral development bank soft funds and of the Global Fund for … 'hidden equity' in soft loan-based funds offering a large increase in such funding (most notably in the World Bank's soft fund …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011777028
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Aid and the environment : the case of Botswana
Juana, James S. - 2014
Botswana has serious environmental problems which, if not addressed, will undermine the attainment of sustainable economic development. This study attempts to determine what aid flows have actually been doing with regard to the environment in Botswana. The results show that although both the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228734
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Development assistance and climate finance
Arndt, Channing - 2015
The distinction between development assistance and climate finance is driven by an optic of compensation largely derived from the 'polluter pays' principle. For practical as well as conceptual reasons, this principle provides a weak basis for climate finance. The distinction also cuts against...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488217
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010210650
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Too many cooks in the kitchen? : the division of financing in World Bank projects and project performance
Winters, Matthew S. - 2019
The total funding envelope for World Bank projects is often divided among various state and non-state actors, each of … financial collaborators in World Bank projects with the World Bank’s ratings of project performance, looking at within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978531