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nicht implementiert worden. Der Erkenntnis, dass Entwicklungshilfe nur dann gesamtwirtschaftliche Wachstumsprozesse …
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The World Bank is a prestigious and large international financial institution. Since its foundation it has widened the … scope and the size of its activities. One interpretation of what the World Bank is doing is the provision of public goods … more and more the functions of a world government in the making. An alternative interpretation would look at the World Bank …
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The paper compares different aid policy instruments and their effect on the target group. Starting from a situation where interest groups compete for the resources of the government, international financial institutions aim to change the policy outcome. They can either directly support one group...
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Development policy affects human rights in manifold ways. For example, trade agreements can have an adverse impact on the rights to health or food by making essential medicines or goods less accessible or available. Or large-scale investment projects influence indigenous rights when they entail...
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The paper presents a detailed description of IMF and World Bank conditionality and tries to explain changes in this … World Bank conditionality as well as interruptions of IMF programs in the recipient countries. Compliance with World Bank … conditionality over time as well as differences between the two institutions. Using panel data it is shown that the number of Fund …
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announcements and assessments of major projects in Africa suggest that China has already overtaken the World Bank in lending to …
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Bailouts sponsored by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are famous for their conditionality: in return for … finding a measure of political importance that is not plagued by endogeneity and obtaining data on IMF conditionality. We … available dataset on the level of conditionality attached to (a maximum of) 314 IMF arrangements with 101 countries over the …
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Inequality has risen in many countries over the last two decades, especially in the transition economies, but also in many developing and developed economies. This is disturbing since little progress can be made in poverty reduction when inequality is high and rising. Moreover, contrary to...
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Das Papier untersucht die Rolle von IWF, Weltbank und WTO und ihre Arbeitsteilung. Ich diskutiere die Gründe für ihre Existenz und ihre ursprünglichen Aufgaben und frage, inwieweit es ihnen gelungen ist, sich den veränderten Bedingungen und ihren neuen Aufgaben anzupassen....
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