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Enabling civil society for sustainable development : select survey findings
Wood, Jacqueline; Fällman, Karin - 2019
Civil society and civil society organisations (CSOs) are important to development co-operation, both as implementing partners for members of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC), and as development actors in their own right. Agenda 2030 is clear on the necessity of mobilising CSOs to...
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Chapter 26 The economics of international aid
Kanbur, Ravi - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1559-1588). 2006
This paper presents an overview of the economics of international aid, highlighting the historical literature and the contemporary debates. It reviews the “trade-theoretic” and the “contract-theoretic” analytical literature, and the empirical and institutional literature. It demonstrates...
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Measuring and managing the impact of sustainable investments : a two axes mapping
Boiardi, Priscilla - 2020
need to implement effective impact measurement and management practices. Impact management enables investors, enterprises …. Impact measurement allows organisations to set impact objectives, monitor impact performance and evaluate impact. The …, certifications, tools and indicators for impact management and measurement. The crowded nature of this space and the multiplicity and …
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Gendered Aid and Women’s Rights
Minasyan, Anna; Montinola, Gabriella - 2023
We study the role of development cooperation in improving women’s economic rights in non-OECD countries and assess … whether development aid given for gender equality objectives leads to progress in women’s legal rights in recipient countries … gendered aid on changes in women’s rights. Our findings show that gender-focused aid has a positive impact on the de …
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How to Shape Development Cooperation? The Global Partnership and the Development Cooperation Forum
Janus, Heiner; Klingebiel, Stephan; Mahn, Timo - 2014
2014 will be an important milestone for shaping the policy field of development cooperation in a post-2015 context. Two central events are taking place. The Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) will convene for its first High-Level Meeting in April 2014 in Mexico...
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Should Global Goal Setting Continue, and How, in the Post-2015 Era?
Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko - 2013
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were introduced to monitor implementation of the United Nations Millennium Declaration which set out a vision for inclusive and sustainable globalization based on human rights principles. This paper critically assesses the MDG experience including their...
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South-North Refugee Migration : Lessons for Development Cooperation
Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998
Migration has become a major concern of European development policies. By improving socio-economic and political conditions through development cooperation, a reduction of South-North migration flows is envisaged. This new approach is examined by analyzing the causes of asylum migration from...
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Aid, conditionality, and war economies
Boyce, James K. - 2004
When natural resource revenues provide an important motive and/or means for armed conflict, the transition from war peace faces three challenges: (i) ensuring that the benefits and costs of natural resource exploitation are distributed so as to ease rather than exacerbate social tensions; (ii)...
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Financing for refugee situations
OECD - 2019
Forced displacement, including refugee flows, is a global phenomenon. As of 2018, 26 million people were refugees. Financing from the international community makes a significant contribution to supporting refugees and host communities. But in order to meet those needs effectively and...
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The effects of foreign aid on refugee flows
Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Langlotz, Sarah - 2018
This article analyzes whether foreign aid affects the net flows of refugees from recipient countries. Combining refugee data on 141 origin countries over the 1976-2013 period with bilateral Official Development Assistance data, we estimate the causal effects of a country’s aid receipts on both...
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