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This paper surveys the various composite well-being indices that have been inter-country assessments over the last 40 or so years, including the well known Human Development Index (HDI). A number of issues are considered, including the choice of components, component weights, scale equivalence,...
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International donors usually have particular goals they want to achieve with their foreign aid, for example, poverty … alleviation. In the international aid story lobbying by potential recipient groups attempting to capture the donor's support play …
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probability of obtaining funds; or, the better the applicant's governance, the greater are its gains. Moreover, the maximum aid a … competition for aid, and the outcome for the quality of governance. …
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underlying aid. The first is when we have several principals with conflicting objectives. Any one principal cannot offer high … with ensuring aid effectiveness may concern both principal and agent; the optimal solution to which requires difficult to …
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A substantial amount of aid to developing countries is given to the government, or goes through the budget, meaning it …-country empirical studies on the effects of aid on government spending neglect time series properties, cross-country (recipient …) heterogeneity and the potential for cross-country correlation. This paper examines the impact of foreign aid and taxes on government …
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The main argument of this paper is that there is considerable heterogeneity in the way aid can shape tax performance in … Group estimator to a dataset comprising 84 developing countries from 1980 to 2013. The following results ensued: aid and … taxes comprise an equilibrium relation, with a positive long-run association between aid and taxes; causality runs from aid …
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A substantial amount of aid to developing countries is given to the government, or goes through the budget, meaning it … studies on the effects of aid on government spending neglect variable time-series properties, cross-country (recipient …) heterogeneity, and the potential for cross-country correlation. This paper examines the impact of foreign aid and taxes on …
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A key aim of economics is to set goals and investigate the relationship between various socio-economic indicators. By fitting time series data using a Bayesian dynamical systems approach we identify non-linear interactions between GDP, child mortality, fertility rate and female education. We...
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This study investigates the relationship between natural resource rents, human development and economic growth in Sudan using co-integration and vector error correction modelling (VECM) over the period 1970-2015. Institutions proved to play a role in determining a difference in whether a country...
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