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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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The Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement is envisioned to further boost Japan's ODA to the Philippines …
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Japan has emerged in recent years as a leading donor country to African countries. At one level, Japan’s renewed … that Japan’s motivations to lend capital and technical assistance to African countries are shared by all lending countries …. However, I argue that Japan’s official development policy and, in particular, the Tokyo International Conference on African …
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This paper uses a static and dynamic gravity model of trade to investigate the link between German development aid and exports from Germany to the recipient countries. The findings indicate that in the long run,German aid is associated with an increase in exports of goods that is larger than the...
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Foreign aid is given for a combination of economic, political, and humanitarian motives. While its impact on economic development in recipient countries has been the main focus of research recently, we concentrate on the question to what extent it also promotes donor countries’ exports. We...
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We address the pitfalls of averaging by exploiting the longitudinal variation in aid to identify sudden and sharp increases in aid flows. Focusing on specific events, we test if aid accelerations correspond to policies and shocks in the recipient country. For a large sample of 145 recipient...
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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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nicht implementiert worden. Der Erkenntnis, dass Entwicklungshilfe nur dann gesamtwirtschaftliche Wachstumsprozesse …
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Kürzlich ist die ursprünglich von James Tobin vorgeschlagene Steuer auf Devisenmarkttransaktionen wieder in die politische Diskussion gerückt. Die deutsche und die französische Regierung haben sich bereits im vergangenen Jahr positiv zur Einführung einer Tobin-Steuer geäußert. Anfang 2002...
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