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Finance for Food: Towards New Agricultural and Rural Finance
Köhn, Doris (contributor) - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902375
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Start-up promotion instruments in OECD countries and their application in developing countries
Müller, Bettina; Rammer, Christian - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010527587
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A General Equilibrium Analysis of Inflation and Microfinance in Developing Countries
Müller, Daniel - 2013
This paper analyses the welfare effects of microfinance and inflation in developing countries. Therefore, we introduce … microfinance institution induces peer monitoring, which in turn enables entrepreneurship. Our main result is that there exists an … inflation threshold beyond which entrepreneurship collapses. We show that inflation affects the impact of microfinance on social …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277721
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Effective development aid: Selectivity, proliferation and fragmentation, and the growth impact of development assistance
Kihara, Takashi - 2012
This paper examines several indicators of effective development aid, focusing on the contributions of major bilateral donors. The empirical analyses of selectivity for effective aid delivery revealed that, taking a long-term and regional perspective, some major donors including Japan have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397213
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277983