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This paper examines whether foreign aid in education has a significant effect on growth. We take into consideration the … and higher education, and run separate regressions for low income and middle income countries. We find that the effect of … flows as well as the heterogeneity of recipient countries when analyzing the effect of aid on growth …
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This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries … indicate that aggregate aid disbursements to the education sector negatively affect gender parity in enrolment at the secondary … and tertiary education levels and have no impact on gender parity in primary education. No impact of subsector specific …
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Despite record economic growth in the decade that followed the fall of the Taliban regime, poverty remained stubbornly …
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ministers’ gender, political ideology, prior professional experience in development cooperation, education in economics, and …
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observe long-run effects after four three-year periods, which appear to be driven by lagged positive effects of aid on growth. …
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Almost half of the world's states provide bilateral development assistance. While previous research takes the set of donor countries as exogenous, this article is the first to explore the determinants of aid donorship. We hypothesize that democratic institutions reduce poor countries' likelihood...
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The notion that foreign aid harms the institutions of recipient governments remains prevalent. We combine new disaggregated aid data and various metrics of political institutions to re-examine this relationship. Long-run cross-section and alternative dynamic panel estimators show a small...
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education programmes in emerging democracies? After more than a decade of evaluations of civic education programmes, it is a … the late 1990s, and summarize their most important findings and lessons learned. It will be shown that civic education … education is not being realized in practice. I conclude with a discussion of current developments in the field, as a significant …
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test whether the effect of aid on economic growth is reduced by the share of years a country has served on the United … results show that the relationship of aid with growth is significantly lower when aid has been committed during a country …’s tenure on the UNSC. We derive two conclusions from this. First, short-term political favoritism reduces growth. Second …
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Through the ABC framework developed under the OECD’s transition finance work stream, the present country pilot strives to shed light on Chile’s official development assistance graduation experience. Its main objective is to understand the challenges related to this graduation, analyse the...
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