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Does foreign aid reduce energy and carbon intensities in developing countries?
Kretschmer, Bettina; Hübler, Michael; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2010
Advanced OECD countries are widely held responsible to contain global carbon emissions by providing financial and technical support to developing economies, where emissions are increasing most rapidly. It is open to question, however, whether more generous official development assistance would...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003938720
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Why it pays for aid recipients to take note of the Millennium Challenge Corporation : other donors do!
Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2010
It is widely believed that the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has grossly fallen short of high expectations raised by the Bush administration in 2002. From the perspective of potential recipient countries, the crucial issue is whether the MCC increased the overall pool of aid resources...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003948581
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Why it pays for aid recipients to take note of the millennium challenge corporation : other donors do!
Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2010
It is widely believed that the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has grossly fallen short of high expectations raised by the Bush administration in 2002. From the perspective of potential recipient countries, the crucial issue is whether the MCC increased the overall pool of aid resources...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003952342
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Does aid for education educate children? : evidence from panel data
Dreher, Axel (contributor); Nunnenkamp, Peter (contributor);  … - 2006
This paper empirically analyzes the impact of aid on education for about 100 countries over the period 1970 - 2005. We estimate a system of equations to test whether and to what extent the impact of sector-specific aid on educational attainment depends on (i) the extent to which aid adds to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003387352
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Determinants of donor generosity : a survey of the aid budget literature
Fuchs, Andreas; Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2012
What determines the foreign aid effort of donor countries? We review the existing literature on donors' aid budgets and examine which of the suggested variables robustly determine aid effort, measured as Official Development Assistance (ODA) as a share of gross national income. More...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358147
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Why it pays for aid recipients to take note of the Millennium Challenge Corporation : other donors do!
Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2010
It is widely believed that the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has grossly fallen short of high expectations raised by the Bush administration in 2002. From the perspective of potential recipient countries, the crucial issue is whether the MCC increased the overall pool of aid resources...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336339
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IWF und Weltbank : trotz aller Mängel weiterhin gebraucht?
Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2002
Der Vorwurf von Globalisierungsgegnern, der IWF und die Weltbank trügen einen wesentlichen Teil der Verantwortung für weltweite Armut und gehäufte Finanzkrisen, ist nicht haltbar. Der Einfluss der Bretton- Woods-Institutionen auf die Wirtschaftspolitik und die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451903
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011495588
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003289295
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003247640