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finance for the Sustainable Development Goals. This working paper presents findings from the 2018 survey edition relating to … facilities. The quantitative analysis is complemented by the OECD statistics on private finance mobilised by official development … interventions and by information provided by Convergence. It will be followed by another OECD Development Co-operation working paper …
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Bangladesh and Pakistan had very divergent experiences with aid after 1971. Politics in Pakistan was less inclusive in terms of opportunities for intermediate class political entrepreneurs. In this context, the significant role of military aid to Pakistan had very negative effects on its...
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‘s influence on economic growth and development; 4) the rationale or logic behind current DPRK policies and practices bearing on … economic performance; 5) the history of US aid to, and economic development in, South Korea; and 6) some of the prerequisites …
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Koreans living abroad, transforming the diaspora into a positive force for long-term development. …
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. Whilst US aid has correctly been cited as key factor in explaining the rapid post-war development of South Korea and Taiwan …
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status and the standard of living in the urban sector after the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were established. Infant … urbanisation sector. Moreover, improvement in health status has been growth driven. With the advent of the Sustainable Development …
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We explore whether foreign aid affects developing countries' creditworthiness, as proxied by the Institutional Investor's measure of country credit risk. Based on a simple model of international borrowing and lending, we develop the hypothesis that current aid reduces the likelihood of future...
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Does official aid pave the road for private foreign investment or does it suffocate private initiative by diverting resources towards unproductive activities? In this paper we explore this question using data for a large number of developing and emerging economies. Controlling for countries'...
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This paper tracks a group of developing countries which started off in the 1960s with a comparable and relatively high aid dependency but followed two different paths in the subsequent four decades: where one sub-group of countries became increasingly aid dependent while the other sub-group...
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This paper explores the impact of foreign aid on firm growth for a panel of 4,342 firms in 29 developing countries, 11 of which are in Africa. Using the World Bank Enterprise Surveys data and controlling for firm fixed effects, we find a positive impact of foreign aid on firms' sales growth....
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