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IWF und Weltbank: trotz aller Mängel weiterhin gebraucht?
Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2002
nicht implementiert worden. Der Erkenntnis, dass Entwicklungshilfe nur dann gesamtwirtschaftliche Wachstumsprozesse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295026
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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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Sectoral aid priorities: Are donors really doing their best to achieve the millennium development goals?
Thiele, Rainer; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Dreher, Axel - 2006
We analyze the aid portfolio of various bilateral and multilateral donors, testing whether they have prioritised aid in line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In doing so, we combine sectorally disaggregated aid data with indicators reflecting the situation of recipient countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272941
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Policy-based Lending and Poverty Reduction: An Overview of Processes, Assessment, and Options
Bolt, Richard; Fujimura, Manabu - 2002
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has long addressed ways to reduce poverty in its operations and has now established poverty reduction as its overarching objective. The intensified focus on poverty reduction needs to be addressed in conjunction with questions in development that remain on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507147
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The World Bank as an International Financial Institution
Shams, Rasul - 2004
The World Bank is a prestigious and large international financial institution. Since its foundation it has widened the … scope and the size of its activities. One interpretation of what the World Bank is doing is the provision of public goods … more and more the functions of a world government in the making. An alternative interpretation would look at the World Bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295425
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Development finance institutions: the need for bold action to invest better
Attridge, Samantha; Gouett, Matthew - 2021
The United Nations Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA) on financing development is at a critical juncture. It was off track before the Covid-19 pandemic struck and there is now a very real risk that it will veer even further off course without bold corrective action. Covid-19 has served to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990547
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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 …
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
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On the pitfalls of measuring aid
Renard, Robrecht; Cassimon, Danny - 2001
1960s. Recent World Bank staff research proposes a more radical departure, introducing the concept of EDA, ‘Effective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279320
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The politician and his banker
Hainz, Christa; Hakenes, Hendrik - 2007
Should the European Union grant state aid through an institution like the European Investment bank? This paper evaluates the efficiency of different measures for granting state aid. We use a theoretical model with firms that differ in their creditworthiness and compare different types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264253