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Understanding Violent Attacks Against Humanitarian Aid Workers

Hoelscher, Kristian - 2015

What factors explain attacks on humanitarian aid workers? Most research has either tended to describe trends rather than analyse the reasons underlying attacks, or lacks the empirical evidence to support causal assertions. In moving this agenda forward, we present to our knowledge the first...

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Apples and dragon fruits : the determinants of aid and other forms of state financing from China to Africa

Dreher, Axel - 2015

Chinese “aid” is a lightning rod for criticism. Policymakers, journalists, and public intellectuals claim that Beijing is using its largesse to cement alliances with political leaders, secure access to natural resources, and create exclusive commercial opportunities for Chinese firms — all...

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Australian Attitudes to Aid : Who Supports Aid, How Much Aid Do They Want Given, and What Do They Want it Given for?

Wood, Terence - 2015

This paper analyses survey data to isolate personal traits and beliefs associated with Australians' opinions about Official Development Assistance (ODA), ODA cuts and ODA purpose. The paper shows that support for Australia giving ODA is high in general but higher on the left, among women, among...

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Priorities of Russian Development Assistance in 2018 Year

Knobel, Alexander - 2019

According to statistics published in October 2019, Russia maintained a relatively high level of funding programs in the field of international development assistance in 2018. A large share (63%) of Russian aid was provided as in the past on a bilateral basis, and the largest recipients remained...

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On Foreign Aid Distortions to Governance

Asongu, Simplice - 2014

The Kangoye (2013, TDE) findings on the negative nexus between foreign aid unpredictability and governance could seriously affect debates in academic and policy making circles. Using the theoretical underpinnings of the celebrated Eubank (2012, JDS) literature, we first confirm Kangoye's...

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Consult Your Gods : The Questionable Economics of Development Assistance in Africa

Asongu, Simplice - 2014

This paper assesses the aid-development nexus in 52 African countries using updated data (1996-2010) and a new indicator of human development (adjusted for inequality). The effects of Total Net Official Development Assistance (NODA), NODA from the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and NODA...

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Reversed Economics and Inhumanity of Development Assistance in Africa

Asongu, Simplice - 2014

(1996-2010) and a new indicator of human development (adjusted for inequality). Design/methodology/approach – The estimation …-origins and religious-dominations. The first-step consists of justifying the choice of the estimation technique with a Hausman … tests respectively. Robustness checks are ensured by: (1) the use of alternative aid indicators; (2) estimation under …

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The Political Economy of Development Assistance : Peril to Government Quality Dynamics in Africa

Asongu, Simplice - 2014

This paper assesses the effectiveness of foreign aid in improving government institutions in 52 African countries using updated data (1996-2010). Findings suggest development assistance deteriorates government quality dynamics of corruption-control, political-stability, rule of law, regulation...

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Scenarios for Increased EU Donor Coordination : What Is the Right Level of Aid Coordination?

Klingebiel, Stephan - 2014

The need for more coordination in European development cooperation is acknowledged by most academics and practitioners. It emerges because there has been a strong increase in the level of fragmentation and proliferation of official development assistance (ODA) in recent years, despite the calls...

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Which Donors, Which Funds? The Choice of Multilateral Funds by Bilateral Donors at the World Bank

Reinsberg, Bernhard - 2014

the example of the World Bank, we distinguish between core funding through the International Development Association and … bilateral aid preferences, they should engage in smaller trust funds. Using a sample of World Bank trust funds which received …

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