Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 305
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009790154
Cover Image
Aid and growth accelerations : vulnerability matters
Guillaumont, Patrick; Wagner, Laurent - 2012
This working paper has been prepared within the UNU-WIDER project 'Foreign Aid': Research and This paper confronts three conundrums. First, does the relationship between aid and growth fade over time when aid is successful? Second, why are aid inflows neglected in the literature on growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516705
Cover Image
Does financial liberalisation improve access to investment finance in developing countries?
O’Toole, Conor M. - 2012
This paper considers the effect of financial liberalisation on access to investment finance using firm level data … credit : firm level investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009565839
Cover Image
Financing sustainable agriculture under climate change with a specific focus on foreign aid
Huang, Jikun - 2013
used to achieve the joint objectives of development, mitigation of and adaptation to climate change in agriculture in the … developing world. The results show that agriculture is underinvested and foreign aid has not increased sufficiently to assist … developing countries achieve sustainable agriculture; substantial funds are needed to finance the wide range of measures for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009738310
Cover Image
Agricultural and rural transformations in Asian development : past trends and future challenges
Vos, Rob - 2018
accelerated growth of both agriculture and non-agricultural sectors. Vast challenges of still widespread poverty and food …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011894303
Cover Image
The effects of land titling in Tanzania
Aikaeli, Jehovaness; Markussen, Thomas - 2017
agricultural investment, land valuation and access to credit in Tanzania. Results show that while there are no detectable effects … of formal, private land property rights (written documentation of ownership) on agricultural investment, land ownership …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011777014
Cover Image
Why does caste still influence access to agricultural credit?
Kumar, Sunil Mitra - 2016
In India, caste shapes access to a variety of resources and outcomes mainly through its influence on inter-generational prosperity, but also the linked phenomenon of discrimination. This paper examines whether caste-based differences in access to formal agricultural loans reflect discrimination...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011491839
Cover Image
Land issues in Vietnam 2006 - 14 : markets, property rights, and investment
Markussen, Thomas - 2015
household investment. Results show that land titling has a strong and statistically significant effect on household investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337152
Cover Image
Mozambique's industrialization
Cruz, António; Guambe, Dina; Marrengula, Constantino Pedro - 2014
than 7 per cent annually since 1992, the economy is mostly based on low-productivity agriculture. Manufacturing contributes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260004
Cover Image
Subsidized labour and firms : investment, profitability, and leverage
Marcelin, Isaac; Brink, Daniel; Fadiran, David Oluwatosin; … - 2019
Employing the difference-in-differences technique, this study examines the impact of the Employment Tax Incentive programme on a large sample of South African firms from 2011 to 2016. It finds that programme firms expanded investments by 4.8 per cent, and profits by 5.7 per cent. Consistent with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012025744