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We address the pitfalls of averaging by exploiting the longitudinal variation in aid to identify sudden and sharp increases in aid flows. Focusing on specific events, we test if aid accelerations correspond to policies and shocks in the recipient country. For a large sample of 145 recipient...
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. Development aid has become an important political and economic factor in most African countries. Its financial impact often … important dans la plupart des pays africains. Son impact financier dépasse souvent celle du budget national. Il contribue donc …
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We address the pitfalls of averaging by exploiting the longitudinal variation in aid to identify sudden and sharp increases in aid flows. Focusing on specific events, we test if aid accelerations correspond to policies and shocks in the recipient country. For a large sample of 145 recipient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335415
Despite a long-standing controversy about aid-effectiveness in general and the impact of aid-dependency on governance … unbiased evaluation of the hidden adverse impact of aid on collective action at the grassroots. Therefore, a rethinking of … comparative au Burkina Faso et au Togo : En dépit d'une longue controverse à propos de l' efficacité de l'aide en général et de l'impact …
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in emigration. Third, this evidence implies that donors could achieve greater impact by leveraging foreign aid not to …
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selection of ODA recipients. However, the Swedish case also supports the skeptical view according to which NGOs are unlikely to …
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The paper empirically explores the factors that could have accounted for the generally declining aid effort (defined as the generosity ratio, or the share of GDP given as aid) of bilateral donors over the last three decades. Annual panel data over 1970-2000 period for the 22 DAC members are used...
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Aid (ODA, Official Development Assistance) statistics are routinely produced by the Development Assistance Committee … used to measure aid in general, and ODA in particular. The methodology is applied to some typical aid instruments, such as …
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We investigate the informal influence of political leaders' spouses on the subnational allocation of foreign aid. Building new worldwide datasets on personal characteristics of political leaders and their spouses as well as on geocoded development aid projects (including new data on 19 Western...
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This paper empirically investigates the effects of governance quality on the number of African asylum seekers in Europe over the period 1996–2018 and evaluates the extent to which official development aid acts as a catalyst. With this purpose in mind, different gravity model specifications and...
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