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Foreign aid, education and lifelong learning in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A.; Tchamyou, Vanessa S. - 2015
This study investigates the effect of foreign aid on education and lifelong learning in 53 African countries for the … period 1996-2010. Three main issues are assessed, notably: (i) the effect of aid on education; (ii) the incremental impact of … aid on education and (iii) the effect of aid on lifelong learning. Lifelong learning is measured as the combined knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410635
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Is favoritism a threat to Chinese aid effectiveness? : A subnational analysis of Chinese development projects
Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Hodler, Roland; Parks, Bradley - 2019
Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political purposes. The vulnerability of Chinese aid to political capture has prompted speculation that it may be economically ineffective, or even harmful. We test these claims by estimating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012025573
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Is favoritism a threat to Chinese aid effectiveness? : A subnational analysis of Chinese development projects
Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Hodler, Roland; Parks, Bradley - 2019
Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political purposes. The vulnerability of Chinese aid to political capture has prompted speculation that it may be economically ineffective, or even harmful. We test these claims by estimating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012033099
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011312747
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Aid and development in Taiwan, South Korea, and South Vietnam
Gray, Kevin J. - 2013
The aim of this paper is to explain the divergent developmental outcomes between South Korea, Taiwan, and South Vietnam. Whilst US aid has correctly been cited as key factor in explaining the rapid post-war development of South Korea and Taiwan, the ultimate failure to establish strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009790673
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BRICS and Foreign Aid
Asmus, Gerda - 2017
literature allow us to draw conclusions about the effects of BRICS aid on economic growth, other development outcomes, governance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948953
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Do No Harm : Aid, Weak Institutions, and the Missing Middle in Africa
Birdsall, Nancy - 2013
The implicit assumption of the donor community is that Africa is trapped by its poverty, and that aid is necessary if Africa is to escape the trap. In this working paper, CGD president Nancy Birdsall suggests an alternative assumption: that Africa is caught in an institutional trap, wherein a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012711444
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Foreign aid volatility and lifelong learning: demand-side empirics to a textual literature
Asongu, Simplice A.; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2015
learning in Africa. Practical implications- As a policy implication, when faced with aid uncertainty, the demand for education … education as means of copping with uncertainty. Moreover, the findings indirectly confirm a stream of the literature sustaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408497
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Foreign aid volatility and lifelong learning
Asongu, Simplice; Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N. - 2019
, when faced with aid uncertainty, the demand for education would increase. This may be explained by the need for more … selfreliance in order to mitigate income risks or/and the use of education as means of coping with uncertainty. More policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012128415
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Assessing foreign aid's long-run contribution to growth and development
Arndt, Channing; Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 69 (2015), pp. 6-18
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