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Foreign aid as prize : incentives for a pro-poor policy
Sayanak, Tejashree (contributor); Lahiri, Sajal (contributor) - 2008
We develop a theoretical model of foreign aid to analyse a method of disbursement of aid which induces the recipient government to follow a more pro-poor policy than it otherwise would do. In our two-period model, aid is given in the second period and the volume of it depends on the level of...
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Foreign aid as prize : incentives for pro-poor policy
Sayanak, Tejashree; Lahiri, Sajal - In: Review of development economics 13 (2009) 3, pp. 403-415
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Aid, poverty alleviation and incentives
Pedersen, Karl Rolf - 1995
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The Intended and Unintended Impacts of a Merit-Based Financial Aid Program for the Poor : The Case of Ser Pilo Paga
Londono-Velez, Juliana - 2017
We study a recent merit-based financial program for the poor in Colombia. We exploit sharp eligibility rules in household wealth and standardized test scores to identify the causal effect of financial aid on postsecondary enrollment and academic performance. We find large positive effects on...
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The intended and unintended impacts of a merit-based financial aid propgram for the poor : the case of Ser Pilo Paga
Londoño Vélez, Juliana; Rodríguez, Catherine; … - 2017
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IMF policies and gender orders : the case of the poverty reduction and growth facility
Elson, Diane; Warnecke, Tonia - In: Questioning financial governance from a feminist perspective, (pp. 110-131). 2011
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Stories of microinsurance : strategy processes for the base of the pyramid in multinational companies and their network
Herrndorf, Martin - 2015
tensions, they often tend to fall back on individuals. In particular for middle managers, combining the maintenance of legacy … and interrelated with local institutional contexts. This dissertation seeks to understand how managers constructively deal … corporate structure. As a central argument, managers rely on practices that mirror the external ambiguity, resulting from both …
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CoCos: a promising idea poorly executed
Herring, Richard J. - In: Achieving financial stability : challenges to …, (pp. 103-120). 2018
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CEOs' poverty experience and corporate social responsibility : are CEOs who have experienced poverty more generous?
Xu, Shan; Ma, Panyi - In: Journal of business ethics : JBE 180 (2022) 2, pp. 747-776
This study examines whether the chief executive officer’s (CEO’s) poverty experience has an impact on firms’ corporate social responsibility (CSR). We find that firms’ CSR performance increases with CEOs’ poverty experience; specifically, firms with CEOs who experienced early-life...
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DEFINING POVERTY LINES AS A FRACTION OFCENTRAL TENDENCY
Muller, Christophe - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2000
Using parametric formulae under lognormality for a broad family of povertymeasures, we show that when inequality measured by the Gini coeffcient isconstant, dening the poverty line as a fraction of a central tendency of theliving standard distribution restricts the evolution of the poverty...
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