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Foreign aid, urbanization and green cities

Li, Jun - 2013

Rapid urbanization, and particularly the associated problems of urban poverty, unsustainable development and environmental degradation, pose an enormous challenge to many developing countries. In the last decade more foreign aid has been diverted to urbanization and green city development. This...

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How do we increase the share of aid to agriculture in Africa?

Quartey, Peter - 2014

African countries. Thus, any policy initiative targeted towards poverty reduction in Africa should consider the agricultural ….5 per cent, and humanitarian 11.9 per cent. Using secondary data and country-case studies from Africa, the study …

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Foreign aid and sustainable agriculture in Africa

Umbadda, Siddig; Elgizouli, Ismail - 2013

high priority. Both volume and share of aid earmarked for agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa not only remained low, around …

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Do the Chinese bring Chitukuko? : rural Malawian understandings of Chinese development

McNamara, Thomas - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 29 (2017) 8, pp. 1149-1165

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Financial Assistance to the Tamilnadu State by World Bank for Improving Productivity in Agriculture

Sapovadia, Vrajlal K. - 2007

Tamilnadu is one of the progressive & largest states in India. Large chunk of population is engaged in agriculture activities. The state rural population faces scarcity of water, more particularly for irrigation. To overcome this, the state government with assistance of World Bank and other...

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Aid, employment and inclusive growth in conflict-affected countries : policy recommendations for Liberia

Castillo, Graciana del - 2012

The experience and lessons of the last two decades have shown that ignoring the key differences between the economics of peace and the economics of development has been a major reason why countries relapse into conflict. This paper briefly analyses such differences and their important...

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The Dynamic Effects of U.S. Food Aid

Barrett, Christopher B.; Mohapatra, Sandeep; Snyder, … - 2015

Although food aid may have important medium-to-long term effects, there is a glaring absence of empirical research on food aid dynamics. This paper applies vector autoregression methods to data from 18 countries over the period 1961-95. We find evidence that food aid has a pronounced J-curve...

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Does rural development aid reduce international migration?

Gamso, Jonas; Yuldashev, Farhod - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 110 (2018), pp. 268-282

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Urbanization of Asian Countries and Aids

Narayan, Gyanendra - 2009

A primarily developing continent Asia is witnessing robust growth in urbanization. Urbanization has come with several … even in the same country. Hitherto, Africa has remained main focus of study of disease but with galloping growth and … urbanization, Asia demands a greater attention in formulation and implementation of policies to check AIDS at a relatively lower …

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Urban service delivery in Africa and the role of international assistance

Stren, Richard E. - In: Development policy review 32 (2014), pp. 19-37

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