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The development gap between the CIS and EU
Sinitsina, Irina; Atamanov, Aziz; Chubrik, Alexander; … - 2008
neighbor states with the EU. To achieve this, the authors aim to assess the existing trends in the size of the gaps across … countries and problem areas, taking into consideration the specific origin of the gap between EU15/EU12, on the one hand, and … FSU republics, EU candidates and West Balkan countries, on the other hand. The paper is structured as follows: 1. A review …
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Modeling economic, social and environmental implications of a free trade agreement between the European Union and the Russian Federation
Jarocinska, Elena; Maliszewska, Maryla; Ščasný, Milan - 2010
The EU-Russia Partnership and Cooperation Agreement, which entered into force in 1997 foresees the possible … an EU-Russia FTA will be beneficial to the Russian Federation and the EU27. Some sectors are expected to contract in the … to expand, while only a few sectors in the EU27 are expected to register negligible decreases in output. We estimate that …
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Lessons from the Southern enlargement of the EU for the environmental dimensions of Eastern enlargement in particular for Poland
Kuik, Onno J.; Oosterhuis, Frans H. - 2001
This paper analyses the environmental dimensions the past accession of Greece, Portugal and Spain to the EU in order to …
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Environmental disruption: Implications for economic planning
Simonis, Udo E. - In: The Developing economies 10 (1972) 1, pp. 86-105
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Democracy, inequality and the environment when citizens can mitigate privately or act collectively
Bernard, Sophie; Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - 2010
We study the political economy of the environment in autocratic, weak and strong democracies when individuals can …
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New Markets for Local Experts in Africa?
Kohnert, Dirk - In: More Responsibilities to South Consultants in …, (pp. 63-74). 1995
In the past decades the involvement of local experts in the planning and evaluation of development programs has steadily increased. Ownership of development planning is propagated as major aim of bilateral and international development co-operation. Yet, the quality and performance of many local...
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Aid to fragile states: Do donors help or hinder?
Browne, Stephen - 2007
he record of aid to fragile and poorly-performing states is the real test of aid effectiveness. Rich countries can justify aid to fragile states both through altruism and self-interest. But, with some exceptions, donors have appeared at the wrong times and with the wrong attitudes, even...
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The political economy of China's aid policy in Africa
Pehnelt, Gernot - 2007
In recent years, China has become a major power on the African continent, not only with respect to trade and investment, but also as a donor of development aid. Although there is no accurate measure of the exact size of China's aid program, since China rather underestimates the volume in...
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Measuring international inequality aversion
Tol, Richard S. J. - 2008
I measure the rate of aversion to inequality in consumption as expressed in the development aid given by rich countries to poor ones between 1965 and 2005. Over time, OECD countries have become less concerned about international inequity. Even for a fairly leaky bucket, the consumption rate of...
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Halving poverty by doubling aid: how well founded is the optimism of the World Bank?
Langhammer, Rolf J. - 2002
The article criticizes the World Bank as overy optimistic concerning its ability to raise the effectiveness of aid by concentrating aid on countries with "good" policies. It is shown that aid flows to the main recipient regions yielded the highest correlation to growth when their magnitudes...
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