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The Political Economy of US Aid to Pakistan

Anwar, Mumtaz; Michaelowa, Katharina - 2004

Variations of bilateral aid flows are difficult to explain on the basis of official development objectives or recipient need. At the example of US aid to Pakistan, this paper suggests alternative political economic explanations, notably the relevance of ethnic lobbying and the relevance of US...

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What Determines Evaluation Outcomes? Evidence from Bi- and Multilateral Development Cooperation

Michaelowa, Katharina; Borrmann, Axel - 2004

Donor agencies invest considerable financial and human resources to evaluate the outcome of their development activities. To derive institutional conditions conducive to an efficient use of these resources, we develop a multi-level principal-agent model focusing on the various interests of the...

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Modelling the fiscal effects of aid: An impulse response approach for Ghana

Morrissey, Oliver; Osei, Robert; Lloyd, Tim - 2002

An important feature of aid to developing countries is that it is given to the government. As a result aid has the potential to affect budgetary behaviour. Although the (albeit limited) aid-growth literature has addressed the effect of aid on policy, it has tended to neglect the effect of aid on...

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EU aid for ACP investment

Wolf, Susanna - 2002

Kommission in den 90er Jahren zum fünftgrößten Geber von Entwicklungshilfe in der Welt entwickelt. Die AKP-Staaten liegen bei … Betrachtung der Gesamthilfe überproportional unter denen, welche die meiste Entwicklungshilfe pro Kopf in der Welt erhalten. Es … Beitrag zu der gegenwärtigen Debatte über die Wirksamkeit von Entwicklungshilfe geleistet. Es wird argumentiert dass die …

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Sustainable forestry investment under the clean development mechanism: The Malaysian case

Dutschke, Michael - 2002

In the light of the development of the Malaysian forestry sector in recent years, the article gives an overview over the current discussions around the inclusion of biological carbon sink projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol, like forest definitions,...

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National CDM criteria, baseline methodologies and case studies for Uzbekistan

Zavyalova, Liliya; Michaelowa, Axel - 2001

The Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol could create a great chance for developing countries to profit from projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve the economic and environmental situation in the host country. The project cycle for the CDM differs from a usual...

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The Contribution of the IMF and the World Bank to Economic Freedom

Boockmann, Bernhard; Dreher, Axel - 2002

We analyse the effect of IMF and World Bank policies on the composite index of economic freedom by Gwartney et al. (2000) as well as its sub-indexes, using a panel of 85 countries observed between 1970 and 1997. With respect to the Bank, we find that the number of projects has a positive impact...

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The Multilateral Donor Non-System: Towards Accountability and Efficient Role Assignment

Reisen, Helmut - 2009

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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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 promote a mix of policies to sustain this global recovery and create jobs through reducing carbon dependency, ecological degradation and poverty. Such a Global Green New Deal...

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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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