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Country Concepts and the Rational Actor Trap - Limitations to Strategic Management of International NGOs
Kohnert, Dirk - 2004
Growing criticism of inefficient development aid demanded new planning instruments of donors, including international NGOs (INGOs). A reorientation from isolated project-planning towards holistic country concepts and the increasing rationality of a result-orientated planning process were seen as...
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New Markets for Local Experts in Africa?
Kohnert, Dirk - In: More Responsibilities to South Consultants in …, (pp. 63-74). 1995
In the past decades the involvement of local experts in the planning and evaluation of development programs has steadily increased. Ownership of development planning is propagated as major aim of bilateral and international development co-operation. Yet, the quality and performance of many local...
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"Wir Beniner sind keine Deutschen" - Zur soziokulturellen Problematik der Zusammenarbeit mit Partnerfachkräften in Benin
Kohnert, Dirk; Preuß, Hans-Joachim A. - In: gtz-info (1989) 6, pp. 20-21
Häufig wird erst bei der Schlußevaluierung von TZ-Projekten erkannt, daß das Nichterreichen von Teilzielen oder gar das Scheitern des gesamten Projektes auf die mangelnde Berücksichtigung sozialer und soziokultureller Voraussetzungen zurückzuführen sind. Es reicht nicht aus, technische,...
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Identification based on higher moments
Lewis, Daniel J. - 2024
Identification based on higher moments has drawn increasing theoretical attention and been widely adopted in empirical practice in macroeconometrics in the last two decades. This article reviews two parallel strands of the literature: identification strategies based on heteroskedasticity and...
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Policy reforms and incentives in rice production in Bangladesh
Selim, Sheikh; Parvin, Naima - 2007
) of rice production in Bangladesh. The incentive component of TFP assists in explaining farmers’ response to incentives …
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The Impact of Agricultural Mechanisation on Poverty Alleviation in a Seasonal Environment: a project evaluation from northern Bangladesh
Zug, Sebastian - 2008
line with their policies. In the example of Bangladesh poverty reduction is the principle concern of rural development … analysed, which is going to be implemented in a vast area of Northern Bangladesh. Through agricultural extension a short …
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Child Labour in Bangladesh - An Analysis of Gaps and Weaknesses of the Existing Legal Framework
Norpoth, Johannes; Groß, Lukas; Aktar, Rahima - 2014
accepted, scenario particularly in some developing countries. Bangladesh is one of the countries that still face the challenge … poverty. In recent years Bangladesh has taken various measures, including legal measures, to address the situation. This paper … reviews reports on the child labour situation in Bangladesh and the current legal framework for child labour and demonstrates …
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Determinants of, and the relationship between FDI and economic growth in Bangladesh
Ahamed, Mazbahul Golam; Tanin, Fahian - 2010
the time scale of FDI to Bangladesh over the period 1975- 2006 and major factors determining foreign companies' decisions … policy framework makes Bangladesh as an attractivedestination of FDI, that has a positive spillover and significant impacts …
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A macro policy for poverty eradication through structural change
Sobhan, Rehman - 2005
This paper argues that poverty originates in the structural injustices of a social order which incapacitates the poor from participating in the growth generating sectors of the economy and leaves them captives in the so called informal sector, characterized by low productivity and low earning...
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The impact of financial reform on private savings in Bangladesh
Chowdhury, Abdur R. - 2001
Over the course of the last decade, Bangladesh has implemented a broad-based program of financial and market reforms … paper estimates a savings function to evaluate the impact of various determinants of private savings in Bangladesh …
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