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Changing the Conditions for Development Aid: A New Paradigm?
Hermes, N.; Lensink, R. - In: Journal of Development Studies 37 (2001) 6, pp. 1-16
, and the discussion on policy conditionality and good governance. Our main conclusions are that the evidence on aid … proposed by the World Bank for distributing aid comes down to introducing conditionality in disguise. …
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Does health technology assessment benefit health services and politics?
Sigmund, H.; Kristensen, F. B. - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 3 (2002) 1, pp. 54-58
Health technology assessment (HTA) was introduced in Denmark 20 years ago. However, it only came into fashion a few years ago. This happened when politicians and health service decision-makers realized that due to the increasing pressure on resources prioritization was an inescapable fact. HTA...
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Wie gut können wir die Folgen des demographischen Wandels abschätzen? Was ist sicher? Wozu brauchen wir bessere Daten?
Börsch-Supan, Axel - In: AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv 6 (2012) 1, pp. 65-82
Demographic change in Germany, as one of the megatrends of the 21st century, is a well-known fact which will, without a doubt, profoundly change the country’s social and economic situation and challenge our whole economic system. Spurred by statements by press and political representatives,...
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Trade with the EU Reduce Corruption in Africa?
Gokcekus, Omer; Suzuki, Yui - In: Journal of Economic Integration 28 (2013), pp. 610-631
Via partnership agreements like the Cotonou Partnership Agreement, the EU provides African countries with access to its markets and asks for compliance with a given set of good governance norms and procedures. While the EU markets are significant for African countries, African markets are not...
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REDD+ as performance-based aid: General lessons and bilateral agreements of Norway
Angelsen, Arild - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013
REDD+, when it officially became part of the international climate agenda in 2007, was an idea about payment to countries and projects for reducing emission from forests, with funding primarily from carbon markets. REDD+ has since become multi-objective;
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Politics and IMF Conditionality
Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Vreeland, James Raymond - CESifo - 2013
Bailouts sponsored by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are famous for their conditionality: in return for … finding a measure of political importance that is not plagued by endogeneity and obtaining data on IMF conditionality. We … available dataset on the level of conditionality attached to (a maximum of) 314 IMF arrangements with 101 countries over the …
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Debt Relief for Poor Countries: Conditionality and Effectiveness
Scholl, Almuth - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 2013
government and model conditionality as an imperfectly enforceable dynamic contract. Our findings suggest that incentive …
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Fiscal Policy, Sovereign Default, and Bailouts
Juessen, Falko; Schabert, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper examines fiscal policy without commitment and the effects of conditional bailout loans. The government relies on distortionary taxation and decides between full debt repayment and costly default. It tends to overborrow due to myopia, which induces default to be a relevant policy...
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European Neighborhood Policy: Some Conclusions in a Country - Specific Framing
SOIMU, Oxana; TROFIMOV, Victoria; URQUIJO, Laura GOMEZ - In: REVISTA DE MANAGEMENT COMPARAT INTERNATIONAL/REVIEW OF … 13 (2012) 1, pp. 130-138
After 2007, European Neighbourhood Policy made progress in terms of consolidation and focus. Besides, under the Lisbon Treaty, the ENP became more composite and more or less better defined, improving its monitoring procedures. The European Union tendency to be more effective in promoting growth...
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SETBACKS AND ACHIEVEMENTS IN MANAGING THE EASTERN NEIGHBOURHOOD
Simionov, Loredana Maria - In: CES Working Papers 5(1) (2013), pp. 92-109
Since its latest enlargements, the European Union has constantly developed various actions and initiatives in order to secure its borders and consequently to be surrounded by countries with dynamic economies and secure and stable political situations. So far, the presence of the union in its...
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