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General budget support, health expenditures, and neonatal mortality rate : a synthetic control approach
Alavuotunki, Kaisa - 2015
mortality (a presumed proxy for improvements in health services), concentrating on the countries that increased their health …, Rwanda, and Malawi, budget support did have a positive effect on health spending and, except for Rwanda, neonatal mortality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381763
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The impact of foreign aid on maternal mortality
Banchani, Emmanuel; Swiss, Liam - 2019
on the effectiveness of foreign aid in reducing maternal mortality in low- and middle-income countries. Using data from …-income countries from 1996 through 2015. Our results show that the effects of total foreign aid on maternal mortality are limited, but … reductions in maternal mortality. Given these targeted effects, it is important to channel more donor assistance to the promotion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011986623
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Politics, policies, and the effectiveness of foreign aid in fragile states
Ocran, Matthew Kofi - 2023
moments estimator to examine the effect of health aid and education aid on maternal mortality and primary school completion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247656
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What makes countries negotiate away their corporate tax base?
Hearson, Martin - International Centre for Tax and Development - 2017
Qualitative case studies suggest that the outcomes of tax treaty negotiations are determined by power politics and negotiating capability. In contrast, quantitative studies have tended to depart from a model that implies absolute gains, full rationality, and perfect information on the part of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653714
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Foreign capital inflow and economic growth in Cameroon
Fambon, Samuel - 2013
The purpose of this paper is to capture the impact of foreign capital inflows (which include foreign aid and foreign direct investment) on economic growth in Cameroon. Using the autoregressive distributive lag approach to cointegration and time-series data for the period 1980 - 2008, the results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010200368
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Illicit financial flows and the Global South : a review of methods and evidence
Brandt, Kasper - 2020
Illicit financial flows (IFFs) constitute a major challenge for development in the Global South, as domestic resource mobilization is imperative for providing crucial public services. While several methods offer to measure the extent of IFFs, each has its benefits and drawbacks. Critically,...
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The impact of foreign direct investment on developing countries' terms of trade
Wacker, Konstantin - 2011
This paper first shows that important economic arguments in favor of the Prebisch-Singer hypothesis of falling terms of trade of developing countries have implicitly relied on the role of multinational corporations and foreign direct investment. As of yet, the relationship between the latter and...
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Externalities and foreign capital in aquaculture production in developing countries
Akpalu, Wisdom; Bitew, Worku T. - 2017
Most developing countries are increasingly dependent on fresh water based aquaculture (cage culture) to supplement the declining catch from capture fisheries. Yet, the competition for space between capture fisheries and cage culture, pollution generated by cage culture, and fish markets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588898
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Diaspora externalities : a view from the South
Rapoport, Hillel - 2018
Migration decisions affect those left-behind in ways that are partly taken into account by market forces (e.g., wage effects on labour markets) and for the most part these can be seen as pure externalities. Diasporas are an example of such an externality. This paper reviews the recent economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011806518
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Aid's impact on social protection in low- and middle-income countries
Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Santillán Hernández, Alma S. - 2023
This study conducts an international comparative analysis of the recent evolution of social protection systems in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), and Asia-Pacific (APAC) regions, paying particular attention to the role of foreign aid in these dynamics. It asks:...
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