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Aid and poverty: Why does aid not address poverty (much)?
Shepherd, Andrew; Bishop, Sylvia - 2013
Aid is not generally aimed at the poorest people, though most multilateral or bilateral agencies would like to think they get included. However, donors' strategies are generally blind to differentiation among the poor, and have not improved in this respect. The special provisions for the least...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319829
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Global development goal setting as a policy tool for global governance: Intended and unintended consequences
Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko - 2013
priority global objectives. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the most prominent example of such goals, but many … influencing international development strategies and action. It analyses the MDGs as an example to argue that global goals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293277
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What are the implications of the global crisis and its aftermath for developing countries, 2010-2020?
Sumner, Andy; Ballantyne, Joe; Curry, Andrew - 2010
Development Goals (MDGs) to 2015 and afterwards. Futureproofing the MDGs is about thinking how future(s) might impact the Goals … outcomes for growth, poverty reduction and the MDGs for different developing economies, against the background of the post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293278
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Are the MDGs priority in development strategies and aid programmes? Only few are!
Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko - 2008
The gap between strong political commitment to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and slow progress towards … PRSPs; decent work, hunger and nutrition, the environment and access to technology tend to be neglected. PRSPs also … emphasise governance as an important means of achieving the MDGs, but they focus mostly on economic governance rather than on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293310
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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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Sectoral aid priorities: Are donors really doing their best to achieve the millennium development goals?
Thiele, Rainer; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Dreher, Axel - 2006
line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In doing so, we combine sectorally disaggregated aid data with … indicators reflecting the situation of recipient countries regarding the MDGs. Our results show that donors differ not only in … aid allocation is conducive to achieving more specific MDGs such as all children completing a full course of primary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295182
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The African Growth Gap and the Realization of the MDGs
Knedlik, Tobias; Reinowski, Eva - 2008
factors that explain part of the anomaly of African growth processes. The MDGs reflect the specifics of African growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301416
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Climate or development: Is ODA diverted from its original purpose?
Michaelowa, Axel; Michaelowa, Katharina - 2005
We analyze the interaction of climate and development policy that has taken place since the early 1990s. Increasing dissatisfaction about the results of traditional development cooperation and the appeal of climate policy as a new policy field led to a rapid reorientation of aid flows. At the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305496
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Multi-dimensional poverty index and tackling interlocking deprivations in the Arab States
Nawar, Abdel-Hameed - 2014
Research into multidimensional poverty has gathered momentum in the last half decade, most notably in the aftermath of the global food and financial crises of 2007-2008. It has gained further momentum since the UNDP-OPHI launched the 2010 Human Development Report (HDR) and more recently as part...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335894