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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 consideration. Despite its significance, aid effectiveness is...
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What are the Links between Aid Volatility and Growth?
Markandya, Anil - 2017
This paper adds to aid volatility literature in three ways: First it tests the validity of the aid volatility and growth relationship from various aspects: across different time horizons, by sources of aid, and by aid volatility interactions with country characteristics. Second, it investigates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976695
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Mobilization Effects of Multilateral Development Banks
Broccolini, Chiara - 2020
This study uses loan-level data on syndicated lending to a large sample of developing countries between 1993 and 2017 to estimate the mobilization effects of multilateral development banks (MDBs), that is, their ability to crowd-in capital from private creditors. Controlling for a large set of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840715
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Cotton, Biotechnology, and Economic Development
Baffes, John - 2017
toward the end of 2010). Yet, between 2000-04 and 2005-09 world cotton production increased 13 percent. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975578
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Impact of Migration on Economic and Social Development : A Review of Evidence and Emerging Issues
Ratha, Dilip - 2017
This paper provides a review of the literature on the development impact of migration and remittances on origin countries and on destination countries in the South. International migration is an ever-growing phenomenon that has important development implications for both sending and receiving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976168
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The Global Financial Crisis and Development Thinking
Rogers, F. Halsey - 2017
economic management in the developed world and the economic models that guide it. The crisis has revealed major market failures … should largely reinforce the Post-Washington Consensus on development that has emerged over the past decade -- a world view …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976477
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Forced Displacement and Refugees in Sub-Saharan Africa : An Economic Inquiry
Verwimp, Philip - 2017
Most reports on refugees deal with the immediate needs of displaced people. This paper seeks to go beyond the emergency …-Saharan Africa from a long-term angle, from the perspective of refugees' own agency as well as from the perspective of the host … community. The paper aims to shed light on the economic lives of refugees in their host communities. Starting with an overview …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970457
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The Globalization of Refugee Flows
Devictor, Xavier - 2020
This paper analyzes the spatial distribution of refugees over 1987-2017 and establishes several stylized facts about … refugees today compared with past decades. (i) Refugees today travel longer distances. (ii) Refugees today are less likely to … seek protection in a neighboring country. (iii) Refugees today are less geographically concentrated. And (iv) refugees …
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Multidimensional Poverty Assessment of Internally Displaced Persons in Iraq
Noumedem Temgoua, Claudia - 2020
Decades of conflict have contributed to high flows of internal displacement in Iraq. The incidence of these flows on the welfare of internally displaced persons is not well understood. This paper attempts to fill this gap in the literature by investigating the link between internal displacement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837701
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975911