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Aid and state transition in Ghana and South Korea

Kim, Jiyoung - 2013

This paper examines the questions of why and how foreign assistance was utilized successfully in South Korea but less so in Ghana, with a focus on the role of aid in the process of state building and state transition in these two countries. Before the 1960s, South Korea and Ghana shared...

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Evidence on aid (in)effectiveness in highly fragile states : a synthesis of three systematic reviews of aid to Afghanistan, Mali, and South Sudan, 2008-21

Zürcher, Christoph - 2022

This working paper provides a summary of three systematic reviews on the effectiveness of aid in Afghanistan, Mali, and …

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Intervention, aid, and institution-building in Iraq and Afghanistan : a review and critique of comparative lessons

Monten, Jonathan - 2013

Since 2001 international attention has focused on the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and specifically on the … democracies. Despite their differences, Iraq and Afghanistan are often considered together in analyses of state-building, and … multiple observers have explored the lessons of one for the other. Yet Iraq and Afghanistan are not the first cases of US …

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The National Solidarity Programme : assessing the effects of community-driven development in Afghanistan

Beath, Andrew; Christia, Fotini; Enikolopov, Ruben - 2013

-driven development programme in Afghanistan that created democratic village councils and funded small-scale development projects. Using a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010192397

The institutions and policies of aid-recipient countries and aid effectiveness : the case of Afghanistan

Bizhan, Nematullah - 2023

recipients looking at the case of Afghanistan during two periods: democratic regime 2002-2021, totalitarian regime 2021 onward. …

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Does foreign aid harm political institutions?

Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - 2015

The notion that foreign aid harms the institutions of recipient governments remains prevalent. We combine new disaggregated aid data and various metrics of political institutions to re-examine this relationship. Long-run cross-section and alternative dynamic panel estimators show a small...

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The return to foreign aid

Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Hansen, Henrik - 2015

We investigate the marginal productivity of investment across countries. The aim is to estimate the return on investments financed by foreign aid and by domestic resource mobilization, using aggregate data. Both returns are expected to vary across countries and time. Consequently we develop a...

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Aid and income : another time-series perspective

Lof, Matthijs; Mekasha, Tseday Jemaneh; Tarp, Finn - 2013

In a recent article, Nowak-Lehmann, Dreher, Herzer, Klasen, and Martínez-Zarzoso (2012) (henceforth NDHKM) conclude that foreign aid has not had a significant effect on income, based on evidence from panel data potentially covering 131 countries over the period 1960-2006. The present study...

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Assessing foreign aid's long-run contribution to growth in development

Arndt, Channing; Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - 2013

This paper confirms recent evidence of a positive impact of aid on growth and widens the scope of evaluation to a range of outcomes including proximate sources of growth (e.g., physical and human capital), indicators of social welfare (e.g., poverty and infant mortality), and measures of...

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The impact of adult civic education programmes in developing democracies

Finkel, Steven E. - 2013

Can democracy be taught? Are individuals more likely to embrace democratic values, to learn basic knowledge about political processes, and to engage the political process more effectively as a result of their exposure to donor-sponsored civic education programmes in emerging democracies? After...

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