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Post-conflict recovery: Does the global economy work for peace?
Addison, Tony - 2005
economic and social recovery of conflict-affected countries cannot be separated from their interaction with the rest of the … agenda. Post-conflict economies also need more external finance to support early institutional development and reform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279288
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Debt relief and civil war
Addison, Tony; Murshed, S. Mansoob - 2001
Of the 41 HIPCs, 11 are classified by the IMF and World Bank as conflict-affected. Can debt relief reduce the level of … violent conflict in these countries? By providing additional resources to finance broad-based public spending, debt relief … could help to redress the grievances that contribute to conflict. It could also reduce the ability of those motivated by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279301
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Lessons for Japanese foreign aid from research on aid's impact
Addison, Tony; Tarp, Finn - 2015
Japan has an impressive history when it comes to aid, industrial policy, and infrastructure development, both as a country that saw meteoric development of its own, and as a country that has been one of the world's largest donors for decades. Looking towards an uncertain future in which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307928
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Aid, social policy, and development
Addison, Tony; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Tarp, Finn - 2015
This paper discusses past and current social policy strategies in the international aid architecture. From the 1990s, aid strategy and policy shifted to put a stronger emphasis on human development. This accelerated with the Millennium Development Goals and will continue under the Sustainable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011312747
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Aid and Infrastructure Financing : Emerging Challenges with a Focus on Africa
Addison, Tony - 2014
The central argument of this study is that given the magnitude of the investment in infrastructure that is required, especially in Africa, the role of foreign aid in the future should be distinctly different. While aid will be required to continue to fill the ‘savings gap' in some small...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044084
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Aid, Debt Relief and New Sources of Finance for Meeting the Millennium Development Goals
Addison, Tony - 2015
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have lofty expectations regarding the impact of official development aid. Are these expectations valid? This paper surveys the literature on aid and growth. It finds that practically all aid studies since the late 1990s conclude that aid increases economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013031783
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Aid, Debt Relief, and New Sources of Finance for Meeting the Millennium Development Goals
Addison, Tony - 2015
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have lofty expectations regarding the impact of official development aid. Are these expectations valid? This paper surveys the literature on aid and growth. It finds that practically all aid studies since the late 1990s conclude that aid increases economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013032059
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Aid and Dutch Disease : evidence from Moroccan and Tunisian time-series data
Addison, Tony; Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina - 2013
We examine aid-induced Dutch Disease - after controlling for the effects of remittances and FDI flows - in the context of two North African countries, Morocco and Tunisia. We do so by performing a multivariate time series analysis of aggregated annual data over the period 1980-2009. Aid causes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010210682
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Aid and infrastructure financing : emerging challenges with a focus on Africa
Addison, Tony; Anand, Prathivadi Bhayankaram - 2012
The central argument of this study is that given the magnitude of the investment in infrastructure that is required, especially in Africa, the role of foreign aid in the future should be distinctly different. While aid will be required to continue to fill the 'savings gap' in some small...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009541849
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Aid and Dutch Disease : Evidence from Moroccan and Tunisian Time-Series Data
Addison, Tony; Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina - 2014
We examine aid-induced Dutch Disease — after controlling for the effects of remittances and FDI flows — in the context of two North African countries, Morocco and Tunisia. We do so by performing a multivariate time series analysis of aggregated annual data over the period 1980-2009. Aid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014140678