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Threat Perceptions in Europe: Domestic Terrorism and International Crime
Murshed, Syed Mansoob - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
group behaviour by solving the collective action problem. I also sketch a macromodel of drugs production in a conflict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005071055
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Greed and grievance in civil wars
Collier, Paul; Hoeffler, Anke - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2002
dependence upon primary commodity exports and a large diaspora substantially increase the risk of conflict. Inconsistent with the … grievance theory, greater ethnic and religious diversity reduce the risk of conflict. The results are robust to correction for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009642657
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When does more aid imply less democracy? An empirical examination
Vlachaki, Irene; Kalyvitis, Sarantis - Department of International and European Economic … - 2011
Foreign aid flows have increased considerably during the last decades, targeting, apart from development objectives, goals related to democracy. In this paper we investigate whether aid has affected the political regime of recipient countries. To this end, we use annual data on Net Official...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009144478
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Conflict, Ideology and Foreign Aid
LABONNE, Julien; BAH, Adama; ARCAND, Jean-Louis - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement … - 2010
In this paper, we present a rent-seeking model of conflict, which highlights the role of ideology in determining …-Driven Development project on civil conflict in the Philippines. The country is characterized by the presence of two rebel groups, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008580424
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Estimating the effect of transitory economic shocks on civil conflict
Ciccone, Antonio - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2011
This note tries to clarify some remaining issues in the debate on the effect of income shocks on civil conflict …. Section 1 discusses the discrepant findings on the effect of rainfall shocks on civil conflict in Miguel and Satyanath (2010 … (rainfall-driven) income shocks on civil conflict and contrasts the conclusions with those of Miguel, Satyanath, and Sergenti …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005707996
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Ethnic Fragmentation, Conflict, Displaced Persons and Human Trafficking: An Empirical Analysis
Akee, Randall K. Q.; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
fragmentation and conflict on international trafficking through internal and international displacements. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611316
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Aid, Policies and Growth: A Non-Canonical Alternative for solving This Puzzle.
Fuentes, Raúl - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2005
This paper presents a two-sector small semi-open economy Ramsey growth model involving foreign aid as an input in the production function. An activist government allocates this input endogenously across sectors and optimizes policies in a non-standard way. Once calibrated, mainly on countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082717
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Should Easier Access to International Credit Replace Foreign Aid?
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Lahiri, Sajal; Younas, Javed - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We examine the interaction between foreign aid and binding borrowing constraint for a recipient country. We also analyze how these two instruments affect economic growth via non-linear relationships. First of all, we develop a two-country, two-period trade-theoretic model to develop testable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325434
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FOREIGN AID AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: NEW EVIDENCE FROM PANEL COINTEGRATION
Hatemi-J, Abdulnasser; Irandoust, Manuchehr - In: Journal of Economic Development 30 (2005) 1, pp. 71-80
The relationship between foreign aid and economic growth is investigated for a panel of developing countries (Botswana, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Sri-Lanka, and Tanzania) over the period 1974-1996. The results reveal that the variables contain a panel unit root and they cointegrate in a panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009351140
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EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF FOREIGN AID ON ECONOMIC GROWTH: A CROSS-COUNTRY STUDY
Moreira, Sandrina Berthault - In: Journal of Economic Development 30 (2005) 2, pp. 25-48
One branch of the literature on aid effectiveness attempts to measure the contribution of foreign aid to the growth of developing countries. The micro results are clear and encouraging: foreign aid is beneficial to economic growth. However, until recently, the macro results were inconclusive:...
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