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Institutional Quality, Conflict and Aid Dependency
Qayyum, Unbreen - Pakistan Institute of Development Economics - 2013
This study attempts to explore the impact of foreign aid on the quality of governance and how conflicts, whether internal or external affect the overall situation. Conflicts affect governance directly by creating instability which adversely affects economic development as investment climate is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010679654
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Conflict and the identification of the Least Developed Countries: Theoretical and statistical considerations
Cortez, Ana Luiza; Kim, Namsuk - Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations - 2012
This paper reviews conflict as one of potential factors that could be incorporated in the identification of least … developed countries (LDCs). It is not clear whether conflict can be considered as a structurally predetermined handicap as those … identified in LDC criteria. More importantly, even if countries may be caught in a conflict trap, adding conflict indicators to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010550918
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A contest success function for rankings
Vesperoni, Alberto - Network of European Peace Scientists - NEPS - 2013
A contest is a game where several players compete for winning prizes by expending costly efforts. We assume that the outcome of a contest is an ordered partition of the set of players (a ranking) and a contest success function assigns a probability to each possible outcome as a function of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010840260
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Greed and Grievance in Civil War
Collier, Paul; Hoeffler, Anke - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 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/10010605126
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Greed and Grievance in Civil War
Collier, Paul; Hoeffler, Anke - EconWPA - 2004
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/10005407738
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Natural Resource Dependence and Economic Performance in the 1970-2000 Period
Mavrotas, George; Murshed, Syed Mansoob; Torres, Sebastian - Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich … - 2012
We look at the type of natural resource dependence and growth in developing countries. Certain natural resources called point-source, such as oil and minerals, exhibit concentrated and capturable revenue patterns, while revenue flows from resources such as agriculture are more diffused....
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When does more aid imply less democracy? An empirical examination
Kalyvitis, Sarantis; Vlachaki, Irene - In: European Journal of Political Economy 28 (2012) 1, pp. 132-146
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...
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Foreign Direct Investment, Aid and Terrorism: Empirical Insight Conditioned on Corruption Control
EFOBI, Uchenna; ASONGU, Simplice; BEECROFT, Ibukun - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2015
This study checks the effect of foreign aid on terrorism and FDI, conditioned on domestic levels of corruption-control (CC). The empirical evidence is based on a sample of 78 countries for the period 1984-2008. The following findings are established: the negative effect of terrorism on FDI is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212529
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What Drives Donor Funding in Population Assistance Programs?
Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Reuser, Mieke - Tinbergen Institute - 2005
The 1994 International Conference of Population and Development (ICPD) established goals for the expansion of population assistance. This global effort has so far not sufficiently been supported by donor funds. Dynamic panel estimation methods are used to see what lies behind the sharing of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144408
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Who carries the Burden of Reproductive Health and AIDS Programs? - Evidence from OECD Donor Countries
Dalen, Hendrik P. van - Tinbergen Institute
This paper tries to establish who carries the burden in supporting reproductive health and AIDS programs worldwide. The 1994 International Conference of Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo established goals for the expansion of assistance in matters of reproductive health and AIDS. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005450722