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Migration und Geld: Überweisungen aus Deutschland ins Heimatland erheblich
Holst, Elke; Schrooten, Mechthild - In: DIW Wochenbericht 74 (2007) 19, pp. 309-315
Entwicklungshilfe übersteigt. Nach Angaben der Weltbank ist Deutschland mit mehr als 10 Mrd. US-Dollar im Jahr 2004 eines der …. Die Motive von in Deutschland lebenden Migrantinnen und Migranten, Geld in ihr Heimatland zu überweisen, wurden bislang … Erwerbsstatus. Eine starke eigene Verortung in Deutschland führt zu geringeren Zahlungen ins Heimatland. Das Haushaltseinkommen kann …
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Does German development aid promote German exports?
Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas - 2008
This paper uses a static and dynamic gravity model of trade to investigate the link between German development aid and exports from Germany to the recipient countries. The findings indicate that in the long run,German aid is associated with an increase in exports of goods that is larger than the...
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Aid and trade: A donor's perspective
Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2008
Foreign aid is given for a combination of economic, political, and humanitarian motives. While its impact on economic development in recipient countries has been the main focus of research recently, we concentrate on the question to what extent it also promotes donor countries’ exports. We...
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Aid allocation by German NGOs: Does the degree of public refinancing matter?
Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiel, Susann; Thiele, … - 2010
Using a new dataset for 41 German non-governmental organizations (NGOs), we analyze the allocation of NGO aid across recipient countries in a Tobit regression framework. By identifying for each NGO the degree of public refinancing, we address the largely unresolved issue of whether financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302715
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Aid allocation through various official and private channels: need, merit and self-interest as motives of German donors
Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2009
Previous literature largely ignores the heterogeneity of aid channels used by each single donor country. We estimate Tobit models to assess the relative importance of recipient need, recipient merit and self-interest of donors for various channels of official and private German aid across a...
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Aid allocation by German NGOs: Does the degree of public refinancing matter?
Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiel, Susann; Thiele, … - 2010
Using a new dataset for 41 German non-governmental organizations (NGOs), we analyze the allocation of NGO aid across recipient countries in a Tobit regression framework. By identifying for each NGO the degree of public refinancing, we address the largely unresolved issue of whether financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285816
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Engagement der deutschen Wirtschaft in afrikanischen Staaten
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Yalcin, Erdal - 2016
Südafrika, gering. Zwar ist Deutschland der fünftwichtigste Lieferant für Afrika, doch der deutsche Marktanteil ist von 14% im … Jahre 1992 auf 5% im Jahr 2013 gesunken. Deutschland exportiert vor allem Industrieprodukte; Agrarprodukte spielen eine sehr … untergeordnete Rolle. Für Afrika ist Deutschland der achtwichtigste Absatzmarkt; aber auch hier blieb das Wachstum hinter jenem …
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Trade, Aid, Remittances and Migration
Akkoyunlu, Sule - 2009
I investigated whether migration is interrelated with trade, aid and remittances so that any policies that consider trade, aid and remittances also affect the decision to migrate. We developed and estimated an empirical model of Turkish migration to Germany and tested the model for the...
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International Trade, Hedging and the Demand for Forward Contracts
Eisenschmidt, Jens; Wälde, Klaus - 2006
One of the main results of the literature on the effects of uncertainty on trade states that uncertainty should not matter in the presence of well developed forward markets. Empirical studies, however, do not support this result. We derive the demand for forward cover in a small open economy...
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The Transatlantic Banking Crisis: Lessons and EU Reforms
Welfens, Paul J. J. - 2009
The key dynamics of the transatlantic banking crisis are analyzed - with emphasis on the fact that the banking disaster of 2007/08 was not really a surprise -, and the five key requirements for restoring stability and efficiency in the EU/OECD banking sector are highlighted. Most important,...
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