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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 …
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The Economic Effects of Judicial Accountability: Some Preliminary Insights
Voigt, Stefan - 2005
of which is the reduction of corruption. First tests concerning the economic effects of JA are carried out drawing on the … absence of corruption within the judiciary as well as data gathered by the U.S. State Department as proxies. On the basis of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263281
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Foreign aid, urbanization and green cities
Li, Jun - 2013
Rapid urbanization, and particularly the associated problems of urban poverty, unsustainable development and environmental degradation, pose an enormous challenge to many developing countries. In the last decade more foreign aid has been diverted to urbanization and green city development. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319883
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Aid and growth: Have we come full circle?
Arndt, Channing; Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - 2009
The micro-macro paradox has been revived. Despite broadly positive evaluations at the micro and meso-levels, recent literature has turned decidedly pessimistic with respect to the ability of foreign aid to foster economic growth. Policy implications, such as the complete cessation of aid to...
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Aid and growth accelerations: An alternative approach to assess the effectiveness of aid
Dovern, Jonas; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2006
It continues to be heavily disputed whether foreign aid promotes economic growth in developing countries. In most cross-country regressions, aid is considered effective only if it shifts recipient countries to a significantly higher and sustainable growth path. We apply an alternative approach...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273173
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Does aid hinder tax efforts? More evidence
Alonso, José Antonio; Garcimartín, Carlos - 2011
During recent years, new doubts about the effectiveness of international aid have emerged. One of the arguments employed to justify this sceptical view is that aid can hinder tax effort in developing countries. Nevertheless, empirical research on the aid-tax nexus is inconclusive and it shows...
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Challenges and policy lessons for the growth-employment-poverty nexus in developing countries
Fields, Gary S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-24
Of the world's 6.7 billion people (as of 2008), 1.3 billion lived on less than $1.25 Purchasing Power Parity dollars … scourge of absolute economic misery among billions of the world's people is one of the most serious problems facing humankind … today. Unemployment (defined below) befalls about 200 million of the world's people - a sizeable number but small compared …
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Aid, growth, and jobs
Fields, Gary - 2012
absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319934
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The Economic Effects of Human Rights
Blume, Lorenz; Voigt, Stefan - 2004
Economists are often skeptical concerning the economic effects of various forms of human rights: it has been argued that basic human rights can make the legal system less efficient but also that extensive social rights are incompatible with market economies. It is argued here that basic human...
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Human rights impact assessments as a new tool for development policy?
Baxewanos, Fabiane; Raza, Werner - 2013
Development policy affects human rights in manifold ways. For example, trade agreements can have an adverse impact on the rights to health or food by making essential medicines or goods less accessible or available. Or large-scale investment projects influence indigenous rights when they entail...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369665