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its sectoral composition. The allocation of post-conflict aid tends to be needs-based by favoring particularly poor … to settlement. Furthermore, the sustainability of conflict resolution appears to be unrelated to the amount and … composition of post-conflict aid. These findings, though based on a limited number of post-conflict episodes, underscore concerns …
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This is an attempt to derive broad, strategic lessons from the diverse experience with economic growth in last fifty years. The paper revolves around two key arguments. One is that neoclassical economic analysis is a lot more flexible than its practitioners in the policy domain have generally...
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Similar to most other developing countries, almost all Arab countries failed to catch up economically with advanced industrial countries. This paper discusses three possible explanations of the disappointing growth performance: (i) an insufficient reformmindedness of developing country...
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It is widely believed that foreign aid may help conflict-affected countries to recover after the settlement of …. Drawing on the conflict database of the Uppsala Conflict Data Program, we address the hypothesis that the effectiveness of … post-conflict aid differs between specific sectors. Our focus is on social and economic infrastructure which is most likely …
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