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Identifying Aid Effectiveness Challenges in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States
Ishihara, Yoichiro - 2017
Fragile and conflict-affected states face daunting challenges for development. Aid has a greater importance on … development in these states than in others, and therefore aid effectiveness ?management and delivery of aid ? bears serious …-affected states (recipients) and development partners (providers) are mutually accountable for aid effectiveness; therefore, this …
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Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?
Doepke, Matthias - 2017
Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to their husbands) benefits children. Does this observation imply that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? The authors develop a series of noncooperative family bargaining models to understand what kind...
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What are the Links between Aid Volatility and Growth?
Markandya, Anil - 2017
. Third, when examining the relationship between International Development Association aid volatility and growth, it isolates … International Development Association aid volatility due to the recipient country's performance from that due to other sources. The … Development Association aid separately, the volatility arising from the recipient country's International Development Association …
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Increased Coverage of Maternal Health Services Among the Poor in Western Uganda in an Output-Based Aid Voucher Scheme
Obare, Francis - 2018
Vouchers stimulate demand for health care services by giving beneficiaries purchasing power. In turn, health facilities? claims are reimbursed for providing beneficiaries with improved quality of health care. Efficient strategies to generate demand from new, often poor, users and supply in the...
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Geopolitics, Aid, and Growth : The Impact of Un Security Council Membership on the Effectiveness of Aid
Dreher, Axel - 2017
The paper investigates the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Specifically, the paper tests whether the effect of aid on economic growth is reduced by the share of years a country served on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in the period the...
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Correlates of Success in World Bank Development Policy Lending
Moll, Peter G. - 2017
This paper examines the correlates of success of development policy lending operations of the World Bank between 2004 …, on intended development results, while still controlling for country characteristics. It finds that a variable used to …
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Impact Evaluation Helps Deliver Development Projects
Legovini, Arianna - 2017
development projects? This paper analyzes the question by constructing a new data set of 100 impact evaluations and 1,135 projects … project financing and the impact evaluation research needed to deliver development outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972305
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Cash Transfers and Temptation Goods : A Review of Global Evidence
Evans, David - 2017
Cash transfers have been demonstrated to improve education and health outcomes and alleviate poverty in various contexts. However, policy makers and others often express concern that poor households will use transfers to buy alcohol, tobacco, or other "temptation goods." The income effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973201
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The Effect of Aid on Growth : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
Galiani, Sebastian - 2017
Development Association (IDA) has been based partly on whether or not a country is below a certain threshold of per capita income …
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Evaluating Aid for Trade : A Survey of Recent Studies
Cadot, Olivier - 2017
The demand for accountability in aid-for-trade is increasing but monitoring has focused on case studies and impressionistic narratives. The paper reviews recent evidence from a wide range of studies, recognizing that a multiplicity of approaches is needed to learn what works and what does not....
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