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Effective development aid: Selectivity, proliferation and fragmentation, and the growth impact of development assistance

Kihara, Takashi - 2012

perspective, some major donors including Japan have been as selective in delivering their aid as some countries well-known for … their selective aid delivery, such as Denmark. Japan has provided higher aid for the countries with better policy and … major donors in Asia, the Pacific, and Europe, including Japan, has proliferated less than the aid programs of most other …

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Start-up promotion instruments in OECD countries and their application in developing countries

Müller, Bettina; Rammer, Christian - 2012

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Sectoral aid priorities: Are donors really doing their best to achieve the millennium development goals?

Thiele, Rainer; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Dreher, Axel - 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...

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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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The effectiveness of foreign aid to education: What can be learned?

Riddell, Abby - 2012

This paper reviews what has been learned over many decades of foreign aid to education. It discusses what works and what does not and in this discussion draws attention to the fact that even a simple assessment requires more than providing a uniform check-list of inputs. It shows the positive...

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Challenges and policy lessons for the growth-employment-poverty nexus in developing countries

Fields, Gary S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-24

Of the world's 6.7 billion people (as of 2008), 1.3 billion lived on less than $1.25 Purchasing Power Parity dollars per person per day and another 1.7 billion lived on between $1.25 and $2.50 PPP dollars (Chen and Ravallion, 2012). The scourge of absolute economic misery among billions of the...

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Developing and Distributing Essential Medicines to Poor Countries: The DEFEND Proposal

Ganslandt, Mattias; Maskus, Keith E.; Wong, Eina V. - 2001

The poorest nations of the world suffer from extreme disease burdens, which go largely untreated because weak incomes and the prevailing system of intellectual property rights fail to provide sufficient incentives to develop new treatments and distribute them at low cost. Recent price reductions...

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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...

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Foreign aid, urbanization and green cities

Li, Jun - 2013

Rapid urbanization, and particularly the associated problems of urban poverty, unsustainable development and environmental degradation, pose an enormous challenge to many developing countries. In the last decade more foreign aid has been diverted to urbanization and green city development. This...

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Aid, growth, and jobs

Fields, Gary - 2012

Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the...

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