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Does Foreign Aid Fuel Trust?
D'Onofrio, Alexandra - 2015
What are the socioeconomic effects of foreign aid in developing countries? How effective is aid in promoting social capital? The paper focuses on these questions from an empirical perspective and assesses the casual effect of foreign aid on trust in Uganda. Individuals living in counties that...
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Does microfinance program innovation reduce income inequality? : cross-country and panel data analysis
Miled, Kamel Bel Hadj; Younsi, Moheddine; Landolsi, Monia - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 11 (2022), pp. 1-15
This paper uses cross-country and panel data set to test the significance of microfinance on income inequality … microfinance in reducing inequality at the macro level. Moreover, our results suggest that microfinance loans can lead to improve … recommendations to policymakers, as they could generate suitable strategies to consider microfinance institutions as a more popular …
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Modelling Housing Market Cycles in Global Cities
Canepa, Alessandra - 2020
In this paper, we consider the dynamic features of house price in metropolises that are characterised by a high degree of internationalisation. Using a generalised smooth transition (GSTAR) model we show that the dynamic symmetry in house price cycles is strongly rejected for the housing markets...
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International Investment Agreements and Foreign Direct Investment : A Survey
Egger, Peter H.; Pirotte, Alain; Titi, Catharine - 2023
This paper reviews the relationship between international investment agreements (IIAs) and foreign direct investment (FDI). It is organised in two parts. The first part explores the generic structure of IIAs and highlights the components that are particularly relevant to FDI. It then gives an...
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Reciprocity between Financial and Social Performance in Microfinance Institutions
Lam, Swee Sum - 2019
Microfinance institutions (MFIs) are hybrid organisations with the dual mission of financial sustainability and social … more sustainable microfinance industry going forward …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891488
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Role of Microfinance Institutions in Social Development
Jha, Srirang - 2019
Microfinance institutions (MFIs) work towards financial inclusion, livelihood sustainability through micro …
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An empirical assessment of the economic effects of WTO accession and its commitments
Chemutai, Vicky; Escaith, Hubert - 2017
Besides facilitating access to the world market, WTO accession negotiations entail a process of domestic reforms that are expected to improve the supply side of acceding economies. However, measuring the actual impact of accession remains an empirical debate. The present paper contributes to the...
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The Global Effects of U.S. Monetary Policy on Equity and Bond Markets : A Spatial Panel Data Model Approach
Lu, Lina - 2020
We use spatial panel data model analysis to study the international transmission of U.S. monetary policy shocks in the global equity and bond markets. Through this analysis, we decompose the overall effect of such a shock into 1) direct effects, 2) higher-order network effects transmitted...
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Measuring World Trade Organization Accession Commitments and Their Economic Effects
Escaith, Hubert; Chemutai, Vicky - 2018
All members join the World Trade Organization (WTO) as a result of negotiations. WTO membership means a balance of rights and obligations. The paper aims at building a synthetic index to measure the depth of accession commitments and estimate the economic impact of accession on Article XII...
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What methods may be used in impact evaluations of humanitarian assistance?
Puri, Jyotsna; Aladysheva, Anastasia; Iversen, Vegard; … - 2015
Despite the widespread occurrence of humanitarian emergencies such as epidemics, earthquakes, droughts, floods and violent conflict and despite the significant financial resources devoted to humanitarian assistance, systematic learning from such interventions using rigorous theory-based impact...
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