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Enduring Impacts of Aid Quality on Job Choices : The Case of the 2004 Tsunami in Aceh
Nose, Manabu - 2017
After the tsunami in Aceh, Indonesia, the recovery of fishing was limited while non-fishing sectors temporarily …
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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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The Role of Historical Christian Missions in the Location of World Bank Aid in Africa
Alpino, Matteo - 2020
allocation of present-day World Bank aid at the grid-cell level in Africa. The correlation is robust to an extensive set of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841687
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Predicting World Bank Project Outcome Ratings
Geli, Patricia - 2017
A number of recent studies have empirically documented links between characteristics of World Bank projects and their … ultimate outcomes as evaluated by the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group. This paper explores the in-sample and out … project. Such models perform better than self-assessments of project performance provided by World Bank staff during the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972899
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Impact Evaluation of Trade Interventions : Paving the Way
Cadot, Olivier - 2017
The focus of trade policy has shifted in recent years from economy-wide reductions in tariffs and trade restrictions toward targeted interventions to facilitate trade and promote exports. Most of these latter interventions are based on the new mantra of "aid-for-trade" rather than on hard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975644
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Using Mixed Methods in Monitoring and Evaluation : Experiences from International Development
Bamberger, Michael - 2017
This paper provides an overview of the various ways in which mixing qualitative and quantitative methods could add value to monitoring and evaluating development projects. In particular it examines how qualitative methods could address some of the limitations of randomized trials and other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976624
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Child Growth, Shocks, and Food Aid in Rural Ethiopia
Yamano, Takashi - 2017
Over the past decades child stunting in Ethiopia has persisted at alarming rates. While the country experienced several droughts during this period, it also received enormous amounts of food aid, leading some to question the effectiveness of food aid in reducing child malnutrition. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966159
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Finding the Poor vs. Measuring Their Poverty : Exploring the Drivers of Targeting Effectiveness in Indonesia
Bah, Adama - 2018
Indonesia's Unified Database for Social Protection Programs (UDB), among the largest targeting registries in the world, used to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927010
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Early-Life Access to a Basic Health Care Program and Adult Outcomes in Indonesia
Ahsan, Md Nazmul - 2020
the long-run impact of the Village Midwife Program in Indonesia. It utilizes the roll-out-variation of the program and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834264
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Does Democratization Promote Competition? : Indonesian Manufacturing Pre and Post Suharto
Hallward-Driemeier, Mary - 2020
Does democratization promote economic competition? This paper documents that the disruption of political connections associated with Suharto's fall had a modest pro-competitive effect on Indonesian manufacturing industries in which his family had extensive business interests. Firms with...
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