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Export performance following trade liberalization : some patterns and policy perspectives
2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003765628
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Emergency aid 2.0 : conference paper
Fuchs, Andreas; Klann, Nils-Hendrik - 2013 - This version: December 2012. Work in progress
Does the proliferation of aid donors lead to visible changes in the world of foreign assistance? Aid provided by low … the OECD is gaining in importance. This article uses data on emergency aid supplied by 105 donor countries to explore the … determinants of aid and the differences in allocation patterns between donor groups. Our results show that both the so-called new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340003
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Geopolitics, aid and growth : conference paper
Dreher, Axel; Eichenauer, Vera; Gehring, Kai - 2014
We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Donor countries … political motives might reduce the effectiveness of conditionality, channel aid to inferior projects, reduce the aid bureaucracy … testing whether the effect of aid on economic growth is reduced by the share of years a country has served on the United …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487721
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Oppressive governments, US closeness, and anti-US terrorism : conference paper
Gries, Thomas; Meierrieks, Daniel; Redlin, Margarete - 2014 - (Draft version, do not cite: 2014-02-28)
Since the 9/11 attacks more attention has been given to the question why the United States is a major target for transnational terrorism. What conditions motivate these terrorist activities? Are there specific characteristics in the terrorists home countries that provide a breeding ground for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010489839
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Structural change and the Kaldor facts in a growth model with relative price effects and non-Gorman preferences : conference paper
Boppart, Timo - 2013
Growth is associated with (i) shifts in the sectoral structure of the economy, (ii) changes in relative prices and (iii) the Kaldor facts. Moreover, (iv) cross-sectional data shows systematic differences in the expenditure structure across income groups. This paper presents a growth model which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342236
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Is technical progress sectorally concentrated? : an empirical analysis for Western European countries ; conference paper
Schiersch, Alexander; Gornig, Martin; Belitz, Heike - 2013
Previous research shows that technical progress at the industry level, measured by sectoral TFP growth, is more localized in continental European countries than in Anglo-Saxon coun-tries. We use EU KLEMS data sets to decompose sectoral TFP for nine European countries by means of a Malmquist...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343753
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The impact of extreme weather events on child health : evidence from Mongolia ; conference paper
Groppo, Valeria; Schindler, Kati - 2014 - Draft
better able to protect their children from the effect of the shock. Finally, both the amount of emergency aid delivered per …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483868