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Ranis, Gustav - 2013

had on recipient countries, and does aid really have the ability to induce policy reform? The structural adjustment loans … of the 1980s were an attempt at prompting policy reform by imposing conditions on recipient countries. This proved …

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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 the Second Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project - have been among the few successful operations it has funded in that country. This paper examines the factors...

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Thirty years in Africa's development : from structural adjustment to structural transformation?

Addison, Tony - 2015

Africa has come a long way since the economic turmoil of the 1980s, the decade of "structural adjustment". Growth has been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack of diversification in Africa's economies-in contrast to...

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IMF conditionality and structural reforms : evidence from developing countries

Apeti, Ablam Estel; Gomado, Kwamivi - 2023

IMF conditionality can vary depending on the type of conditionality, the type of reform, the time frame, the initial level … often common. In this paper, we address the question of whether periods of IMF conditionality contribute to the promotion of … structural reforms in developing countries. We combine a rich dataset on IMF conditionality and structural reforms covering 64 …

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Aid and environment in Mozambique

Tomo, Alda; Givá, Nícia - 2014

Mozambique benefits from environmental aid-related funds, but it is still unclear whether donor commitments render directly into projects that are copiously implemented for the purposes stated and what aid flows have actually been doing and are doing in the area of aid and environment in...

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Foreign aid and the failure of state building in Haiti under the Duvaliers, Aristide, Préval, and Martelly

Buss, Terry F. - 2013

After receiving at least US$20 billion in aid for reconstruction and development over the past 60 years, Haiti has been and remains a fragile state, one of the worse globally. The reasons for aid failure are legion but mostly relate to highly dysfunctional Haitian regimes, sometimes destructive...

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Foreign aid, resource rents and institution-building in Mozambique and Angola

Pérez Niño, Helena; Le Billon, Philippe - 2013

Sharing similar colonial and post-independence civil war experiences, Mozambique and Angola's development paths are often contrasted, with foreign aid-dependent Mozambique hailed a success compared to oil rentier Angola. This paper questions the so-called Mozambican miracle and contrasts it with...

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Aid and environment in Burkina Faso

Bambio, Yiriyibin - 2013

The main objective of the paper is to determine the actual aid flows that have an environmental focus in Burkina Faso. The environment literature highlights important environment issues in air, land and water, including deforestation, desertification, irreversible negative effects on...

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Putting Paris into practice : foreign aid, national ownership, and donor alignment in Mali and Ghana

Brown, Stephen - 2016

This paper examines the application of the first two principles of the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, namely ownership and alignment, to the cases of Mali and Ghana. It argues that Western donors and recipient governments have adopted the Paris Principles mainly in form, rather...

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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 South Sudan between 2008 and 2021. These three countries, like all other highly fragile countries, suffer from bad governance, lack of capacity, and violence. The systematic...

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