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Shooting the messenger of good news : a critical look at the World Bank's success story of effective aid

Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2002

In a report presented at the UN Conference on Financing for Development in March 2002, the World Bank claims that the … policies. However, the World Bank's success story rests on an extremely weak foundation: First, the institution's contribution … the distribution of World Bank financing. Second, the picture portrayed in the report takes a bad turn if only two …

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How global is FDI? : evidence from the analysis of Theil indices

Bickenbach, Frank; Liu, Wan-hsin; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2015

It is open to question whether the intensified worldwide competition for FDI has reduced its traditionally strong concentration in a few large and relatively advanced host countries. We calculate and decompose Theil indices to track changes in absolute and relative concentration of FDI during...

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Is the Washington Consensus dead? : Growth, openness, and the Great Liberalization, 1970s - 2000s

Estevadeordal, Antoni; Taylor, Alan M. - 2008

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Reevaluating the modernization hypothesis

Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon; Robinson, James A.; … - 2007

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Sectoral aid priorities : are donors really doing their best to achieve the millennium development goals?

Thiele, Rainer (contributor); Nunnenkamp, Peter (contributor) - 2006

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Modelling the Fisher hypothesis: World wide evidence

Herwartz, Helmut (contributor); … - 2006

In this paper we follow an empirical approach to examine the implications of the Fisher hypothesis, namely cointegration linking interest rates and inflation, and stationarity of the real interest rate implying in turn homogeneity of the potential equilibrium relation. The considered sample is...

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Sectoral aid priorities : are donors really doing their best to achieve the millennium development goals?

Thiele, Rainer - 2006

We analyze the aid portfolio of various bilateral and multilateral donors, testing whether they have prioritised aid in line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In doing so, we combine sectorally disaggregated aid data with indicators reflecting the situation of recipient countries...

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Grants versus loans : much ado about (almost) nothing

Nunnenkamp, Peter (contributor); Thiele, Rainer (contributor) - 2005

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Assessing the allocation of aid : developmental concerns and the self-interest of donors

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer; Triveño, Luis; … - 2005

measured by the World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA). If the CPIA is replaced by the Kaufmann index …

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Skill policies for Scotland

Heckman, James J. (contributor); … - 2004

This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. We present evidence that...

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