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This paper analyzes the selection and allocation decisions of major and like-minded bilateral donors as regards development assistance for health for the period of 1990 till 2007. The central question is to what extent health indicators, reflecting the health objectives stated in the Millennium...
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This paper analyzes the targeting of development assistance for health across countries in a multivariate regression framework, based on data from 22 bilateral donors to 160 recipients between 1990 and 2007. Donor characteristics, recipient characteristics and the donor-recipient-relationship...
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We assess empirically whether foreign official development assistance (ODA) has been effective in alleviating HIV/AIDS …-in-difference-in-differences approach to identify the treatment effect of ODA specifically meant to fight sexually transmitted diseases on HIV/AIDS …, conclusive evidence on significant treatment effects on AIDS-related deaths only exists for the major bilateral source of ODA …
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We assess empirically whether foreign official development assistance (ODA) has been effective in alleviating HIV/AIDS …-in-difference-in-differences approach to identify the treatment effect of ODA specifically meant to fight sexually transmitted diseases on HIV/AIDS …, conclusive evidence on significant treatment effects on AIDS-related deaths only exists for the major bilateral source of ODA …
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This paper develops a real options approach to the optimal sequencing of antiretroviral drug cocktails for HIV/AIDS …
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schooling, reducing child and maternal mortality as well as reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS. Overall, while some MDGs, e ….g., the fight against HIV/AIDS, have shaped the allocation of aid, the sector-specific results reveal that with respect to …
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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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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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In this paper we propose minority voting as a scheme that can partially protect individuals from the risk of repeated …: voting winners, voting losers, and absentees. Under minority voting only voting losers keep the voting right in the second … period. We show that as soon as absolute risk aversion exceeds a threshold value minority voting is superior to repeated …
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