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Foreign aid: A fillip for development or a fuel for corruption?

Blackburn, Keith; Forgues-Puccio, Gonzalo F. - 2011

We present an analysis of the effects of foreign aid on economic development when the quality of governance may be … may be summarized as follows: (1) corruption impedes economic development and compromises the effectiveness of aid … programmers; (2) the incidence of corruption may, itself, be affected by both the development process and the donation of aid; (3 …

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Structuring international financial support for climate change mitigation in developing countries

Neuhoff, Karsten; Fankhauser, Sam; Guerin, Emmanuel; … - 2010

In the Copenhagen Accord of December 2009, developed countries agreed to provide start-up finance for adaptation in developing countries and expressed the ambition to scale this up to $100 billion per year by 2020. The financial mechanisms to deliver this support have to be tailored to country...

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Does female empowerment promote economic development?

Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle - 2011

Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to their husbands) benefits children. Does this observation imply that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? We develop a series of noncooperative family bargaining models to understand what kind of...

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