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Challenges and policy lessons for the growth-employment-poverty nexus in developing countries

Fields, Gary S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-24

Of the world's 6.7 billion people (as of 2008), 1.3 billion lived on less than $1.25 Purchasing Power Parity dollars … scourge of absolute economic misery among billions of the world's people is one of the most serious problems facing humankind … today. Unemployment (defined below) befalls about 200 million of the world's people - a sizeable number but small compared …

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Assessing the allocation of aid: developmental concerns and the self-interest of donors

Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, … - In: The Indian economic journal 54 (2006) 1, pp. 26-51

recipients if governance is measured by the World Bank?s CPIA. If the CPIA is replaced by the Kaufmann index, however, the policy …

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Tobin-Steuer: Neue Vorschläge entkräften nicht alte Einwände

Frenkel, Michael; Langhammer, Rolf J. - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 82 (2002) 9, pp. 548-554

Kürzlich ist die ursprünglich von James Tobin vorgeschlagene Steuer auf Devisenmarkttransaktionen wieder in die politische Diskussion gerückt. Die deutsche und die französische Regierung haben sich bereits im vergangenen Jahr positiv zur Einführung einer Tobin-Steuer geäußert. Anfang 2002...

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The multilateral donor non-system: towards accountability and efficient role assignment

Reisen, Helmut - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 4 (2010) 2010-5, pp. 1-22

Global governance refers to several pillars; one important pillar is the multilateral aid architecture. Its reform can be discussed under the perspectives of representativeness, inclusiveness, and efficiency (of aid delivery). A prerequisite for efficient aid delivery is to map the rising...

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Creating the superior Islamic banking through improving quality of human resources

In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 5 (2011) 2, pp. 216-232

psychological empowerment. It uses data from a sample of Islamic banking employees in Malang City-East Java-Indonesia. The study …

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Targeting aid to the needy and deserving: nothing but promises?

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - In: The world economy 29 (2006) 9, pp. 1177-1201

By reallocating aid to where it is needed most and where a productive use is most likely, donors could help alleviate poverty in developing countries. The rhetoric of donors suggests that this insight has increasingly shaped the allocation of aid. We assess the poverty and policy orientation of...

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Does Aid for Education Educate Children? Evidence from Panel Data

Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - In: The World Bank economic review 22 (2008) 2, pp. 291-314

We analyze the aid portfolio of various bilateral and multilateral donors, testing whether they have prioritised aid in line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In doing so, we combine sectorally disaggregated aid data with indicators reflecting the situation of recipient countries...

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What donors mean by good governance: Heroic ends, limited means, and traditional dilemmas of development co-operation

Nunnenkamp, Peter - In: Nord-Süd aktuell 8 (1994) 3, pp. 458-463

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Global governance: the G20 and a Global Green New Deal

Barbier, Edward B. - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 4 (2010) 2010-2, pp. 1-35

As the world recovers from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the international community should … economies, create jobs and improve the sustainability of world development …

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The fight over the global development agenda: How the West tries to marginalise UNCTAD

Wade, Robert H. - In: Intereconomics 47 (2012) 5, pp. 304-306

The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has a long history of intellectual independence. This article details how Western countries tried to marginalise the organisation and its work - which is often critical of Western powers - during the 2012 UNCTAD conference. While developing...

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