The main purpose of this work is to develop a case study assessing the recent patterns and impacts of ODA (official development assistance) and DAH (development assistance for health) to Liberia on overall government spending and domestic revenue generation as well as domestic government health...

How are parental inter-vivos transfers to their children and children’s informal care of parents influenced by personal characteristics, family conditions and state specific long term care policies? AHEAD data from 1993 and 1995 and a two-party choice model are used to guide the estimation of...

This policy brief is about access and use of credit in Uganda by small holder farmers. The brief uses the secondary data to shed light on the extent of the problem and further uses successful case studies in agricultural financing to demonstrate how improvements can be achieved. The major...

Since the mid-1990s, the IMF has provided large financial assistance to a number of member countries affected by serious financial and exchange rate crises. Because of the unprecedented size of these packages and possible negative side effects, the desirability of such assistance has become a...

The paper finds a significant shift in the economic characteristics of civil conflicts during the1990s. Conflicts have become shorter but with more severe contractions and a stronger recovery of growth. The overall length and cost of the conflict cycle has probably declined. The stance of...

This paper examines the effects of IMF financial assistance on economic governance in developing countries, based on panel data analyses of perceived governance indicators. It uses a two-stage approach to address possible endogeneity issues. The results show that successful implementation of IMF...

Der Arbeitsbericht beschreibt die regionale Verteilung der finanziellen Staatshilfen für den Agrarsektor in der Förderperiode 1995 bis 2008. Räumliche Betrachtungseinheit sind die Bundesländer, Landkreise und siedlungsstrukturellen Kreistypen. Im Einzelnen wird die regionale Verteilung der...

В статье дана характеристика российской модели бюджетного федерализма, структурно представленной расходными обязательствами, налоговыми полномочиями и...

The Philippines is a geographically dispersed country posing a major bottleneck in the economic distribution of grid power to its more than 7,000 islands. To this inherent problem, on site power generation is a practical alternative.

This Selected Issues paper for Vietnam reports that the framework for policy lending in Vietnam, in conjunction with the active consideration of proposals to enhance the operational autonomy of policy-lending institutions, poses significant risks. The current framework does not adequately...