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Do IMF-Supported Programs Catalyze Donor Assistance to Low-Income Countries?
Bal-Gunduz, Yasemin - 2014
This study explores whether IMF-supported programs in low-income countries (LICs) catalyze Official Development Assistance (ODA). Based on a comprehensive set of ODA measures and using Propensity Score Matching approach to address selection bias, we show that programs addressing policy or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040408
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Making Aid Work : Governance and Decentralization
Epstein, Gil S. - 2015
Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort into having an effect. A department may come into conflict with other departments because of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013031606
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The Role of Aid for Trade in the European Union’s Development Policy
Udvari, Beata - 2011
Aid for Trade is a new international program to help developing countries meet the challenges of the multilateral trading system and benefit from the liberalization process. The European Union as the largest aid provider in the world is among the donors which has accepted this program and...
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Revamping the Aid for Trade Initiative : Why is it Necessary? What Can Be Done?
Hallaert, Jean-Jacques - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079625
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Cabo Verde transition finance country pilot
Morris, Rachel; Cattaneo, Olivier; Poensgen, Konstantin - 2018
A transition finance country pilot was initiated by the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) in partnership with the government of Cabo Verde. The study aims to capture the challenges facing Cabo Verde following graduation from Least Developed Country (LDC) to Lower Middle Income Category...
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On the effectiveness of foreign aid in institutional quality
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2013
We extend the Okada & Samreth (2012, EL) and Asongu (2012, EB) debate on 'the effect of foreign aid on corruption' by: not partially negating the former's methodological underpinning (as in the latter's approach) with a unifying empirical framework and; broadening the horizon of inquiry from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409986
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Consult your gods : the questionable economics of development assistance in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2013
growth, GDP per capita growth and inequality adjusted human development. The magnitude of negativity (which is consistent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410035
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Reversed economics and inhumanity of development assistance in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
that development assistance is detrimental to GDP growth, GDP per capita growth and inequality adjusted human development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410048
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On the effect of foreign aid on corruption
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
The Okada & Samreth(2012, EL) finding that aid deters corruption could have an important influence on policy and academic debates. This paper partially negates their criticism of the mainstream approach to the aid-development nexus. Using updated data(1996-2010) from 52 African countries we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410054
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Development thresholds of foreign aid effectiveness in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
Purpose - This paper examines whether initial levels in GDP growth, GDP per capita growth and inequality adjusted human … distribution. This implies high-growth countries are more likely to benefit from development assistance (in terms of general … economic growth) than their low-growth counterparts. (2) The positive nexus between aid and per capita economic growth displays …
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