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The long-term effects of development aid - Empirical studies in rural West Africa.

Kohnert, Dirk; Elwert, Georg; Bierschenk, Thomas - In: Economics, Biannual Journal of the Institute for … 47 (1993) 1, pp. 83-111

This article is based on field studies in rural West Africa. It concentrates on the socio-structural effects of development aid in the long run, in contrast to numerous available evaluation reports on the short-run effects of development projects. The study reveals that superficial...

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Country Concepts and the Rational Actor Trap - Limitations to Strategic Management of International NGOs

Kohnert, Dirk - 2004

Growing criticism of inefficient development aid demanded new planning instruments of donors, including international NGOs (INGOs). A reorientation from isolated project-planning towards holistic country concepts and the increasing rationality of a result-orientated planning process were seen as...

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New Markets for Local Experts in Africa?

Kohnert, Dirk - In: More Responsibilities to South Consultants in …, (pp. 63-74). 1995

In the past decades the involvement of local experts in the planning and evaluation of development programs has steadily increased. Ownership of development planning is propagated as major aim of bilateral and international development co-operation. Yet, the quality and performance of many local...

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Crisis Region Western Africa - The cradle of African migration to Europe

Kohnert, Dirk - In: Africa and Fortress Europe - Threats and opportunities, (pp. 37-55). 2007

In the last decades the number of refugees from conflict regions in Africa increased dramatically. West Africa is the cradle of migration from Sub-Saharan Africa to Europe, were most African migrants with overseas destinations live. The European Union shares dual responsibility for the...

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Donor’s double talk undermines African agency: Comparative study of civic agency in Burkina Faso and Togo

Kohnert, Dirk - 2015

Zusammenfassung: Trotz einer lang andauernden Kontroverse über den Nutzen von Entwicklungshilfe im Allgemeinen und den … Revolutionen‘ in Burkina Faso und Togo – Beide seit Jahrzehnten am Tropf der Entwicklungshilfe hängend – dienen als Beleg für diese … versteckten negativen Auswirkungen von Entwicklungshilfe auf pro-aktive demokratische Aktionen an der Basis. Daher ist es …

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The impact of global crises, trade finance and aid on export flows: A developing country perspective

Brambila-Macias, Jose; Massa, Isabella; Salois, Matthew J. - 2011

In this paper, we use a mixed-effects trade gravity model on a sample of 83 developing countries over the period 1990-2007 to assess the impact of trade finance and foreign aid on bilateral export flows. In addition to traditional variables, we also include a banking crises variable and a global...

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Intervention hangovers in stabilisation operations: Case studies from Afghanistan and Iraq

Dennys, Christian; Fitz-Gerald, Ann M. - 2011

This paper argues that the emergence of stabilisation as a concept out of peace-building, state-building and counter-insurgency theories has carried with it some of the key weaknesses of international intervention, in particular the idea that imposing western liberal systems on non-western...

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Some considerations on the external public debt of LDCs

Simonis, Udo E. - In: Intereconomics: Review of European economic policy 12 (1977) 7/8, pp. 204-207

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[Rezension] Detlef Kantwowsky (Hrsg.): Evaluierungsforschung und -praxis in der Entwicklungshilfe. Zürich: Verlag der Fachvereine, 1977

Simonis, Udo E. - In: Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv - Review of World … 115 (1979) 4, pp. 781-782

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The Philippines' Absorptive Capacity for Foreign Aid

Kang, Hyewon - 2010

This study evaluates the Philippines' absorptive performance for foreign aid, particularly during the six-year period 2003 to 2008, and compare this to that of the previous period, 1986 to 1988. We observe that the country's capacity to absorb foreign aid has declined during the period under...

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