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Blended finance in fragile contexts : opportunities and risks
Basile, Irene; Neunuebel, Carolyn - 2019
The development community agrees on the need to address conflict and fragility for global security and sustainable … innovative and more flexible financing methods worth considering. Official Development Aid remains critical, but blended finance … lens presented in the OECD 2018 States of Fragility Framework. The data shows a positive relationship between blending …
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Financing for refugee situations
OECD - 2019
Forced displacement, including refugee flows, is a global phenomenon. As of 2018, 26 million people were refugees. Financing from the international community makes a significant contribution to supporting refugees and host communities. But in order to meet those needs effectively and...
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Blended finance funds and facilities : 2018 survey results : part I: investment strategy
Basile, Irene; Dutra, Jarrett - 2019
provide further policy guidance in support of the OECD DAC Blended Finance Principles, whose focus is unlocking commercial … the management, capital structure, investment strategy and portfolio allocation of the surveyed blended finance funds and … discussing the development strategy, performance tracking and evaluation approach. The 180 responses received illustrate to what …
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Connective financing Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries
Bluhm, Richard; Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, Bradley - 2020
This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity. Leveraging a new global dataset of geo-located Chinese government-financed projects over the period from 2000 to 2014 together with measures of spatial inequality based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012226698
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Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries
Bluhm, Richard; Drehery, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, … - 2020
This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity. Leveraging a new global dataset of geo-located Chinese government-financed projects over the period from 2000 to 2014 together with measures of spatial inequality based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012230114
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Understanding Chinese and Western development finance in Uganda, South Africa, and Zimbabwe
Muchapondwa, Edwin; Mukanjari, Samson - 2014
conditionality making China's aid model different to Western donors. China dominates as a donor for Zimbabwe with substantial aid … environmental aid from China, the magnitude of environmental aid from Western donors suggests there is a need to explore other areas … to leverage the effect of environmental aid on the environment. Overall we find that aid disbursements are significantly …
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'Ground-truthing' Chinese development finance in Africa : field evidence from South Africa and Uganda
Muchapondwa, Edwin; Nielson, Daniel L.; Parks, Bradley; … - 2014
A new methodology, Tracking Under-Reported Financial Flows (TUFF), allows us to systematically gather open-source information - e.g. news reports, case studies, project inventories from embassy websites, and grant and loan data published by recipient governments - about Chinese development...
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Multilateral development aid : assessing the major replenishments of 2016
Manning, Richard - 2017
This survey of the 2016 replenishments of three multilateral development bank soft funds and of the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria shows that a significant re-set of the multilateral development finance system is taking place, with grant funding from traditional donors generally in decline...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011777028
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What drives donor funding in population assistance programs?
Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Reuser, Mieke - 2005
The 1994 International Conference of Population and Development (ICPD) established goals for the expansion of population assistance. This global effort has so far not sufficiently been supported by donor funds. Dynamic panel estimation methods are used to see what lies behind the sharing of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343951
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Development assistance and climate finance
Arndt, Channing - 2015
The distinction between development assistance and climate finance is driven by an optic of compensation largely derived from the 'polluter pays' principle. For practical as well as conceptual reasons, this principle provides a weak basis for climate finance. The distinction also cuts against...
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