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Die Sachs-Easterly-Kontroverse: "Dissent on Development" revisited
Hielscher, Stefan - 2008
Der entwicklungsökonomische Diskurs ist aktuell geprägt durch eine kontroverse Debatte zwischen Jeffrey Sachs und William Easterly. Der Beitrag rekonstruiert beide Ansätze aus ordonomischer Perspektive. Er argumentiert, dass eine auf Kooperation angelegte Semantik vergleichsweise besser...
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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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Essays in empirical development economics: Insights from time series and panel data analysis
Haile Gebregziabher, Fiseha - 2014
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Development Cooperation - Evaluation and New Approaches
Ahrens, Heinz (contributor) - 2005
This volume represents some of the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Research Committee on Development Economics (Ausschuss für Entwicklungsländer) of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik) held in Cologne, Germany, in July 2004. The meeting focused on the...
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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...
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Assessing the effectiveness of World Bank investments: The gender dimension
Lauterbach, Claire; Zuckerman, Elaine - 2013
Today it is widely acknowledged that increasing the gender sensitivity of development aid increases its effectiveness. This report evaluates the extent to which the World Bank integrates gender concerns into its policies and investments, pointing out structural, financial and policy gaps that...
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Trade as aid: The role of the EBA-trade preferences regime in the development strategy
Gradeva, Katerina; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2009
This study focuses primarily on trade preferences offered by the European Union (EU) and in particular on the Everything But Arms (EBA) trade preferences regime, which is targeted exclusively on least developed countries (LDCs). Using the gravity model, an estimation of the influence of the EBA...
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Human rights impact assessments as a new tool for development policy?
Baxewanos, Fabiane; Raza, Werner - 2013
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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Is EU Support to Malawi Agriculture Effective?
Zant, Wouter - 2012
We measure the impact of the Farmers Income Diversification Program (FIDP), an EU funded program implemented in Malawi … impact. Computations are based on annual data by Extension Planning Area, 198 in total, fully covering Malawi, for the period …
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Two steps forward, one step back: The limits of foreign aid on Malawi's democratic consolidation
Resnick, Danielle - 2012
Since the era of one-party rule, Malawi's relationship with the donor community has proved erratic and contentious …. During the second term of Malawi's current president, Bingu wa Mutharika, this trend has continued apace, with important … threatened to withhold aid to Malawi. Yet, they frequently only proceed with these threats when concurrent concerns exist over …
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