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Can HIPC Reduce Poverty in Tanzania?
Danielson, Anders - 2001
While growth has increased in Tanzania during the past five or six years, it is still too low to have a visible impact …
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Will HIPC matter? The debt game and donor behaviour in Africa
Birdsall, Nancy; Claessens, Stijn; Diwan, Ishac - 2002
In this paper we focus on the question: will the HIPC debt reduction programme help in the transformation of the development assistance business and change the rules of the ‘debt game’ in Africa? We concentrate on the donor and official creditor side, by exploring how the growing debt of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279105
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Debt dynamics and contingency financing: Theoretical reappraisal of the HIPC initiative
Nissanke, Machiko; Ferrarini, Benno - 2001
sustainability in the context of the intertemporal borrowing model, the growth-cum-debt model and the gap models. After reviewing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279147
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Does India use development finance to compete with China? A subnational analysis
Asmus, Gerda; Eichenauer, Vera; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, … - 2022
China and India increasingly provide aid and credit to developing countries. This paper explores whether India uses these financial instruments to compete for geopolitical and commercial influence with China (and vice versa). To do so, we build a new geocoded dataset of Indian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013202888
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Too many cooks in the kitchen? The division of financing in World Bank projects and project performance
Winters, Matthew S. - 2019
The total funding envelope for World Bank projects is often divided among various state and non-state actors, each of which can have competing ideas about or interests in the project. How does the division of financing relate to overall project effectiveness? I argue that too many funding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146493
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Does India use development finance to compete with China? A subnational analysis
Asmus, Gerda; Eichenauer, Vera; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, … - 2021
China and India increasingly provide aid and credit to developing countries. This paper explores whether India uses these financial instruments to compete for geopolitical and commercial influence with China (and vice versa). To do so, we build a new geocoded dataset of Indian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012544385
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Does India use development finance to compete with China? A subnational analysis
Asmus, Gerda; Eichenauer, Vera; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, … - 2021
China and India increasingly provide aid and credit to developing countries. This paper explores whether India uses these financial instruments to compete for geopolitical and commercial in uence with China (and vice versa). To do so, we build a new geocoded dataset of Indian government-financed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012583656
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Politics, policies, and the effectiveness of foreign aid in fragile states
Ocran, Matthew Kofi - 2023
effectiveness in fragile states. Using data from 2002 to 2020, this paper examines the effects of education aid and health aid on … education outcomes and health outcomes in fragile states. It uses the Arellano-Bover/Blundell-Bond system generalized method of … moments estimator to examine the effect of health aid and education aid on maternal mortality and primary school completion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477453
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The impact of foreign aid in education growth: How relevant is the heterogeneity of aid flows and the heterogeneity of aid recipients?
Asiedu, Elizabeth; Nandwa, Boaz - 2007
This paper examines whether foreign aid in education has a significant effect on growth. We take into consideration the … as well as the heterogeneity of recipient countries when analysing the effect of aid on growth. – education ; foreign aid … higher education, and run separate regressions for low-income and middle-income countries. We find that the effect of aid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287743
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Does foreign aid in education foster gender equality in developing countries?
Maiga, Eugenie W. H. - 2014
This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries … indicate that aggregate aid disbursements to the education sector negatively affect gender parity in enrolment at the secondary … and tertiary education levels and have no impact on gender parity in primary education. No impact of subsector specific …
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