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health and education, notably female, represent especially important links determining the strength of the relationship …
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that people who are vulnerable to fall under the poverty line indulge in criminal activities as a consumption smoothing … towards economic growth, poverty alleviation and crime deterrence concomitantly. The results indicate a positive and … statistically significant impact of poverty, inequitable income growth and low quality of the legal system on incidence of total …
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reduce inequality and poverty and only a significant scale-up of university education would lead to much lower levels of …. In short, education is not a panacea to poverty and inequality. These results are robust when tested with different data … inequality and income poverty in Brazil. We use data from three censuses and 35 national household surveys (PNAD). The …
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illustrate its feasibility with an example from the education sector in Zambia. …
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This paper empirically analyzes the impact of aid on education for about 100 countries over the period 1970-2005. We … of the link between government expenditure and education, (iii) the quality of institutions in the recipient country, and …
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growth and poverty reduction, but also on intermediate outcomes such as health and education. This paper reviews evidence … from recent in-depth country work on the impact of government policies and service provision in health and basic education …
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objectives of poverty alleviation and microenterprise development. Amid the high expectation, a myth has been inadvertently … created that they could be the ultimate solution to poverty reduction. The objective of the paper is to examine the nature of … aid for microenterprise development and poverty alleviation. To this end, the paper first examines economics of …
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We use an excludable instrument to test the effect of foreign aid on economic growth in a sample of 96 recipient countries over the 1974-2009 period. We interact donor government fractionalization with a recipient country’s probability of receiving aid. The results show that fractionalization...
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Political proximity between donor and recipient governments may impair the effectiveness of aid by encouraging favoritism. By contrast, political misalignment between donor and recipient governments may render aid less effective by adding to transaction costs and giving rise to incentive...
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Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political purposes. The vulnerability of Chinese aid to political capture has prompted speculation that it may be economically ineffective, or even harmful. We test these claims by estimating...
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