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The effectiveness of aid under post-conflict conditions : a sector-specific analysis
Donaubauer, Julian; Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2016
It is widely believed that foreign aid may help conflict-affected countries to recover after the settlement of conflicts. However, the available empirical evidence supporting this view largely neglects the heterogeneous nature of aid. Drawing on the conflict database of the Uppsala Conflict Data...
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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...
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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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Foreign aid and subnational development : a grid cell analysis
Bitzer, Jürgen; Gören, Erkan - 2018 - This Version: March 2018
We examine the impact of geo-referenced World Bank development programs on subnational development using equally sized grid cells with a spatial resolution of 0.5 decimal degrees latitude x longitude as the unit of investigation. The proposed grid cell approach solves a number of endogeneity...
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Educational inputs and economic development in end-of-nineteenth-century Prussia
Schüler, Ruth M. - 2016
Which role did educational investments play for economic development? Using data on schooling quantity and quality provided by the first and second Prussian census on primary schools and two measures capturing the high and the low end of the income distribution allows applying a value-added...
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The Total Return to Higher Education : Is There Underinvestment For Economic Growth and Development?
McMahon, Walter W. - 2019
The total return to higher education is the rate of return based on earnings plus non-monetary private and social … benefits beyond earnings that captures higher education's contribution to development.A theory of endogenous development offers … a new scholarly contribution where firm and household production with education externalities and the endogeneity of new …
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Desenvolvimentismo versus liberalismo econômico no período populista e o gasto público social
Pires, Julio Manuel - In: Revista Economia e Sociedade 41 (2010) 12, pp. 28-28
Developmentalism versus economic liberalism in the populist period and social public expenditure - This article aims to investigate social public expenditure during the populist period (1930-1964) by carrying out a comparative analysis of the 'authoritarian' and 'democratic' ages. In addition,...
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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 …
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Race v. suffrage : the determinants of development in Mississippi
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2011
-9), as well as the impact of voting registration on education outcomes at different points in time, namely in 1917 and in the …-2000 period. Our main conclusion is that race, rather than political institutions and education policies, is the main force … driving the above outcomes. -- race ; institutions ; development ; inequality ; education …
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Race V. Suffrage : The Determinants of Development in Mississippi
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2011
-9), as well as the impact of voting registration on education outcomes at different points in time, namely in 1917 and in the …-2000 period. Our main conclusion is that race, rather than political institutions and education policies, is the main force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119252