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Chapter 26 The economics of international aid
Kanbur, Ravi - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1559-1588). 2006
This paper presents an overview of the economics of international aid, highlighting the historical literature and the contemporary debates. It reviews the “trade-theoretic” and the “contract-theoretic” analytical literature, and the empirical and institutional literature. It demonstrates...
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Aid, social policy, and development
Addison, Tony; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Tarp, Finn - 2015
This paper discusses past and current social policy strategies in the international aid architecture. From the 1990s, aid strategy and policy shifted to put a stronger emphasis on human development. This accelerated with the Millennium Development Goals and will continue under the Sustainable...
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Food Aid Allocation Policies : Coordination and Responsiveness to Recipient Country Needs
Kuhlgatz, Christian H.; Abdulai, Awudu; Barrett, … - 2013
We employ censored least absolute deviations and multivariate Tobit estimators to investigate whether food aid flows from the main donor countries respond to recipient country needs as reflected in low food availability, low income, or both. We also explore the hypothesis that donor countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014175789
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Food Aid Allocation Policies : Coordination and Responsiveness to Recipient Country Needs
Barrett, Christopher B.; Kuhlgatz, Christian; Abdulai, Awudu - 2015
We employ censored least absolute deviations and multivariate Tobit estimators to investigate whether food aid flows from the main donor countries respond to recipient country needs as reflected in low food availability, low income, or both. We also explore the hypothesis that donor countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014182081
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Binding Constraints to Trade Expansion : Aid for Trade Objectives and Diagnostics Tools
Hallaert, Jean-Jacques - 2010
Trade can be a powerful engine for economic growth, poverty reduction, and development. However, harnessing the power of trade is often difficult for developing countries, particularly the least developed countries, because of supply-side domestic constraints (lack of trade-related...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149877
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Gendered Aid and Women’s Rights
Minasyan, Anna; Montinola, Gabriella - 2023
We study the role of development cooperation in improving women’s economic rights in non-OECD countries and assess … whether development aid given for gender equality objectives leads to progress in women’s legal rights in recipient countries … gendered aid on changes in women’s rights. Our findings show that gender-focused aid has a positive impact on the de …
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Lessons for Japanese foreign aid from research on aid's impact
Addison, Tony; Tarp, Finn - 2015
Japan has an impressive history when it comes to aid, industrial policy, and infrastructure development, both as a country that saw meteoric development of its own, and as a country that has been one of the world's largest donors for decades. Looking towards an uncertain future in which...
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Foreign aid and subnational development : a grid cell analysis
Bitzer, Jürgen; Gören, Erkan - 2018 - This Version: March 2018
association between foreign aid and economic growth, measurement errors, and endogenous sample selection bias. The estimates …
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Cash on Delivery Aid for Health : What Indicators Would Work Best?
Savedoff, William D.; Douglas Martel, Katherine - 2011
definitions, discusses the feasibility of measurement, considers evidence on the availability of effective policy instruments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014174902
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How to Shape Development Cooperation? The Global Partnership and the Development Cooperation Forum
Janus, Heiner; Klingebiel, Stephan; Mahn, Timo - 2014
2014 will be an important milestone for shaping the policy field of development cooperation in a post-2015 context. Two central events are taking place. The Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) will convene for its first High-Level Meeting in April 2014 in Mexico...
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