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Start-up promotion instruments in OECD countries and their application in developing countries
Müller, Bettina; Rammer, Christian - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010527587
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Fertility differences between married and cohabiting couples: a switching regression analysis
Zhang, Junfu; Song, Xue - 2007
more children than cohabiting couples primarily because marriage provides stronger incentives for specialization in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268606
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The determinants of selection and allocation decisions for health assistance: Which role do health indicators play?
Stepping, Katharina - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294362
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Do poor health conditions lead to higher allocation of development assistance?
Stepping, Katharina - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294391
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Throwing foreign aid at HIV/AIDS in developing countries: Missing the target?
Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277988
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Throwing foreign aid at HIV/AIDS in developing countries: Missing the target?
Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311666
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Optimal sequencing of antiretroviral drug cocktails under uncertainty and irreversibility
Bezabih, Mintewab; Stolpe, Michael - 2007
This paper develops a real options approach to the optimal sequencing of antiretroviral drug cocktails for HIV/AIDS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273119
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Sectoral aid priorities: Are donors really doing their best to achieve the millennium development goals?
Thiele, Rainer; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Dreher, Axel - 2006
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272941
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277721
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397213