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The Knowledge Sharing Program (KSP) gained global attention in the late 1990s when knowledge was increasingly recognized as an important element for successful, sustainable development. Accordingly, South Korea has utilized the KSP to further promote its development cooperation efforts by...
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by a monopoly owned by the inventor. We show that philanthropy does not necessarily increase long-run growth and that it …
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philanthropy in China today. This paper investigates donations given in 2011 by private enterprises using a survey of data covering … all 31 provincial-level units of China. The data show that philanthropy practised by Chinese private enterprises is …
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There has been little systematic study of the mechanisms typically used to raise money for charity. One of the most common is the simple raffle in which participants purchase chances to win a prize at a constant price. We conduct a field experiment randomly assigning participants to four raffle...
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Theory commonly posits agents who care both for the level of provision of a public good and the extent to which they personally contribute to the cause. Simply put, agents feel some "warm glow" from the donations they make. I discuss a fundraiser devised to exogenously vary the incentive to give...
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society. This concept of philanthropy as opposed to charity is not new; and it is interesting to note that more than one …. In it, we will center our attention on the views on philanthropy held by Baron de Hirsch, illustrating them by reference …
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