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A Profile of the World's Young Developing Country Migrants

McKenzie, David J. - 2007

around the world. Youth are found to comprise a large share of all migrants, particularly in migration to other developing … particular, developing country youth tend to work in similar occupations all around the world, and are more concentrated in these …

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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...

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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 … the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group. Departing from the related literature, the paper focuses mostly on … Policy" department of the World Bank, also increase the chance of success. Conversely, a weaker set of supported reforms in …

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The Effect of Aid on Growth : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment

Galiani, Sebastian - 2017

The literature on aid and growth has not found a convincing instrumental variable to identify the causal effects of aid. This paper exploits an instrumental variable based on the fact that since 1987, eligibility for aid from the International Development Association (IDA) has been based partly...

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To Give or to Forgive? Aid Versus Debt Relief

Cordella, Tito - 2017

Is generalized debt relief an effective development strategy, or should assistance be tailored to countries' characteristics? To answer this question, the authors build a simple model in which recipient governments reveal their creditworthiness if donors offer them to choose between aid and debt...

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Foreign Aid and Business Bottlenecks : A Study of Aid Effectiveness

Ferro, Esteban - 2017

This paper proposes a new framework to analyze aid effectiveness. Using World Bank firm survey data and OECD aid flow …

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What is Effective Aid? How Would Donors Allocate it?

Kenny, Charles - 2016

development. This paper looks at what the cross-country aid effectiveness literature and World Bank Operations Evaluation …

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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...

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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...

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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...

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