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Martínez Álvarez, Melisa; Acharya, Arnab K. - 2012

shape the landscape of development co-operation. -- aid effectiveness ; health ; fungibility ; harmonization … health sector. It summarizes the history of aid and outlines the methodological challenges encountered when assessing its …. The review finds that resource allocation, lack of predictability of funds, fragmentation, fungibility and the system of …

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Putting Paris into practice : foreign aid, national ownership, and donor alignment in Mali and Ghana

Brown, Stephen - 2016

This paper examines the application of the first two principles of the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, namely ownership and alignment, to the cases of Mali and Ghana. It argues that Western donors and recipient governments have adopted the Paris Principles mainly in form, rather...

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Donors' support for microcredit as social enterprise: A critical reappraisal

Nissanke, Machiko - 2002

The donor community has enthusiastically embraced the concept of microfinance as a promising mechanism to attain the objectives of poverty alleviation and microenterprise development. Amid the high expectation, a myth has been inadvertently created that they could be the ultimate solution to...

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Donor coordination for effective government policies? Implementation of the new aid effectiveness agenda in health and education in Zambia

Leiderer, Stefan - 2013

growth and poverty reduction, but also on intermediate outcomes such as health and education. This paper reviews evidence … from recent in-depth country work on the impact of government policies and service provision in health and basic education …

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General budget support : has it benefited the health sector?

Fernandes Antunes, Adelio; Xu, Ke; James, Chris D.; … - In: Health economics 22 (2013) 12, pp. 1440-1451

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Aid, Governance, and Private Foreign Investment: Some Puzzling Findings and a Possible Explanation

Harms, Philipp; Lutz, Matthias - 2003

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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A development-focused allocation of the special drawing rights

Aryeetey, Ernest - 2004

Efforts to realize the issue of development-focused Special Drawing Rights (SDR) by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have been on-going for many years. Recently, however, the campaign first gained a new momentum immediately after the Asian financial crises with the new liquidity problems of...

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Aid, Governance, and Private Foreign Investment: Some Puzzling Findings and a Possible Explanation

Harms, Philipp; Lutz, Matthias - 2003

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Foreign aid and developing countries' creditworthiness

Harms, Philipp; Rauber, Michael - 2004

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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Foreign aid and developing countries' creditworthiness

Harms, Philipp; Rauber, Michael - 2004

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