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The effectiveness of foreign aid to education: What can be learned?
Riddell, Abby - 2012
This paper reviews what has been learned over many decades of foreign aid to education. It discusses what works and what does not and in this discussion draws attention to the fact that even a simple assessment requires more than providing a uniform check-list of inputs. It shows the positive...
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Does foreign aid reduce energy and carbon intensities in developing countries?
Kretschmer, Bettina; Hübler, Michael; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2010
Advanced OECD countries are widely held responsible to contain global carbon emissions by providing financial and technical support to developing economies, where emissions are increasing most rapidly. It is open to question, however, whether more generous official development assistance would...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277983
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Foreign Financial Flows and Terrorism: A Case Study of Pakistan
Anwar, Amar; Mughal, Mazhar - 2016
analyze the impact of terrorism in Pakistan on the inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI), portfolio investments, and … migrant remittances. We find that FDI decreases substantially as a result of terrorist activity, whereas portfolio investments … show little change. In contrast, migrant remittances show a significant increase. These differences are also evident in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142455
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The nexuses between budget deficit and price inflation in Pakistan: An ARDL bound testing approach
Muhammad, Sulaiman D.; Zafar, Saba; Noman, Muhammad; … - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 10 (2016) 3, pp. 606-614
expansion. To explore this connection, a time series data of Pakistan span from 1973 to 2014 have been employed. Different … method of financing imbalances is directly and essentially identified with the price expansion within Pakistan. The ARDL …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011938528
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Impact of interest rate differentials on market capitalization in Pakistan: An empirical analysis
Farooq, Fatima; Anwar, Sadia; Chaudhry, Imran Sharif - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 10 (2016) 3, pp. 687-707
determinant of market capitalization in Pakistan. Such findings may imply that decreasing the interest rate differentials could be … used as a vehicle for achieving long-term growth of capital market in Pakistan's case. …
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Modelling central bank behaviour in Nigeria: A Markov-switching approach
Ayinde, Taofeek Olusola; Bankole, Abiodun S.; Adeniyi, … - In: Central Bank Review (CBR) 20 (2020) 4, pp. 213-221
The study models the behaviour of the Central Bank of Nigeria. An extended Taylor's framework that accounted for exchange rate dynamics and political risk factors was adopted. In order to capture both ex-ante and ex-post behaviours of the monetary authority in the country, Markov-Switching...
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Interest Rate Volatility of the Federal Funds Rate: Response of the Bank Indonesia and its Impact on the Indonesian Economic Stability
Mukhlis, Imam; Hidayah, Isnawati; Retnasih, Nora Ria - In: Journal of Central Banking Theory and Practice 9 (2020) 1, pp. 111-133
This research aims to analyse the response of the Bank Indonesia (BI rate) to the Indonesian economic stability. The data analysis is stationarity test, model stability test, lag determination, Structural Vector Autoregression (SVAR), Impulse Response Function (IRF), and Variance Decomposition...
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Does external debt drive inflation in Sudan: evidence from symmetric and asymmetric ARDL approaches
Sharaf, Mesbah Fathy; Shahen, Abdelhalem Mahmoud - In: Journal of Business and Socio-economic Development 3 (2023) 4, pp. 293-307
Purpose This study aims to examine the symmetric and asymmetric impact of external debt on inflation in Sudan from 1970 to 2020 within a multivariate framework by including money supply and the nominal effective exchange rate as additional inflation determinants. Design/methodology/approach The...
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The Philippines' Absorptive Capacity for Foreign Aid
Kang, Hyewon - 2010
This study evaluates the Philippines' absorptive performance for foreign aid, particularly during the six-year period 2003 to 2008, and compare this to that of the previous period, 1986 to 1988. We observe that the country's capacity to absorb foreign aid has declined during the period under...
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Remittances and the macroeconomy: The case of small island developing states
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Pozo, Susan; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2007
In this paper we examine how remittances relate to the exchange rate, natural disasters and foreign aid in developing … find that while foreign aid tends to appreciate the real exchange rate, remittances do not have the same impact. We also … of disaster shocks on the real exchange rate and on the level of remittances across the two samples. …
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