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development aid in the long run, in contrast to numerous available evaluation reports on the short-run effects of development …. Development aid has become an important political and economic factor in most African countries. Its financial impact often … to one another, about the partitioning of the cake of development aid. Normally this struggle between different vested …
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The European Union is more capable than any of its Member Stats, individually to meet the major challenges of the XXI century. It is a political and economic partnership that represents a unique form of cooperation among sovereign countries. The challenges can only be properly understood or...
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There has been considerable debate regarding the efficacy of international aid in meeting the dual goals of human … safeguard and monitoring initiatives; however, evidence on the success of these interventions is limited. Evaluating aid is a … data. In conjunction with GeoSIMEX, we test and contrast multiple approaches to reducing the imprecision of aid, including …
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This paper applies Marcel Mauss' Gift Theory in conjunction with Qin Yaqing's Relational Theory to Chinese foreign aid …. It proposed that this approach allows to conceptualise Chinese aid to Africa as a continuous gift cycle initiated in …, China symbolically affords the recipient status in a way that Northern aid does not. The real existing power asymmetries …
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The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), trade, aid, remittances and … findings showed that, in the short-run, FDI, trade, aid, remittances and tourism had positive significant effects on welfare …, even under terrorism and militancy. However, in the long run, only aid and remittances had significant effects while FDI …
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transfers be from a richer to a poorer country. But normally we do not know who are the taxpayers who finance international aid … nor who are the beneficiaries of aid. We can nevertheless establish the rules such that the likelihood of a globally … richer than rich countries- taxpayers. Some rules for changing eligibility criteria for aid are proposed. …
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Adjustment programmes promoted by the IMF and the World Bank have met with mixed success in recent years. What part has the interaction of interest groups in the countries concerned played in this connection? What lessons are to be learnt for future adjustment programmes?
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The paper reviews experiences from the accession process of Poland and the Czech Republic, two countries with different accession conditions regarding the agri-food sector. The paper has two main aims. First is to discuss the scope of action in the EU and in the acceding countries from a game...
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In dieser Studie analysieren wir das Potenzial organisierter Interessen als Transmissionsriemen zwischen der Bevölkerung und politischen Institutionen im parlamentarischen System der Bundesrepublik zu fungieren. Wir verwenden Daten aus Experteninterviews mit Lobbyistinnen und Lobbyisten und...
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Verfassungsbeschwerden werden nicht nur von Einzelpersonen erhoben, sondern auch von Unternehmen, Verbänden oder zivilgesellschaftlichen Interessengruppen. Gleichwohl sind die politischen Implikationen des Verfahrens von der Politikwissenschaft bisher kaum gewürdigt worden. Dies ist umso...
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