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effectiveness of its financial aid has improved substantially by targeting aid at poor developing countries pursuing sound economic … outliers with extremely high per capita aid (Cape Verde and Honduras) are excluded from the sample. Third, according to our … regression results, the allocation of World Bank aid did not improve in the course of the 1990s. …
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The regional allocation of aid within recipient countries has been largely ignored in the aid allocation literature. We … use geocoded data on the location of aid projects financed by the World Bank and the African Development Bank within a … sample of 27 recipient countries to assess the claim of donors that their aid targets needy population segments. We also …
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It continues to be heavily disputed whether foreign aid promotes economic growth in developing countries. In most cross …-country regressions, aid is considered effective only if it shifts recipient countries to a significantly higher and sustainable growth … suggested by Hausmann, Pritchett and Rodrik. In assessing what can reasonably be expected from the donors’ modest aid efforts …
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effectiveness of its financial aid has improved substantially by targeting aid at poor developing countries pursuing sound economic … outliers with extremely high per capita aid (Cape Verde and Honduras) are excluded from the sample. Third, according to our … regression results, the allocation of World Bank aid did not improve in the course of the 1990s. …
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Germany's role in financing economic development in Asia on a sustainable basis leaves much to be desired. Direct investors are still underrepresented in the region. Commercial banks have fueled speculative bubbles. Official development financing does not appear to be based on efficiency-related...
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of donor generosity, aid effectiveness and new means of financing. However, the development orientation of world leaders … relief and private (FDI) flows. Calls for substantially scaling up regular aid had little effect, and financial innovations … critics focusing on the quality of aid. In particular, we find that the targeting of aid according to need and merit leaves …
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