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Aid and environment in Africa: The case of Tanzania

Kahyarara, Godius - 2014

This paper provides an assessment of what aid has actually been doing in the area of environment in Tanzania through a … critical review of the flows, modalities and management of aid. Focusing on the funding for environmental degradation projects … year (or nearly 10 per cent of the budget). Ultimately, aid money is critical for Tanzania, as over 90 per cent of funds …

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Does Development Aid Increase Military Expenditure?

Langlotz, Sarah; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016

The diversion of development aid to the recipient's military may be one explanation why aid is often found to be … ineffective in promoting economic growth and development. Previous studies have not derived the causal effects of development aid … on military expenditure. Using a new instrumental variable strategy, we examine whether bilateral development aid …

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Temporary Work Visas as US-Haiti Development Cooperation: A Preliminary Impact Evaluation

Clemens, Michael A.; Postel, Hannah M. - 2017

We report a small-sample, preliminary evaluation of the economic impact of temporary overseas work by Haitian agricultural workers. This work occurs in the United States in the context of a pilot program designed as a form of post-disaster development assistance to Haiti. We find that the...

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Donor-supported approaches to improving extractives governance: Lessons from Nigeria and Ghana

Buckley, Joanna; McCulloch, Neil; Travis, Nick - 2017

Donor interest in the extractives sector is based upon the premise that it represents an opportunity to improve a country's development prospects. However, in many cases the presence of extractive resources is associated with poor economic performance. As a result, some donors are trying a...

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Aid, taxes and government spending: A heterogeneous, cointegrated panel analysis

Tagem, Abrams M. E. - 2017

A substantial amount of aid to developing countries is given to the government, or goes through the budget, meaning it …-country empirical studies on the effects of aid on government spending neglect time series properties, cross-country (recipient …) heterogeneity and the potential for cross-country correlation. This paper examines the impact of foreign aid and taxes on government …

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The economic impact of political instability and mass civil protest

Matta, Samer; Appleton, Simon; Bleaney, Michael F. - 2017

Previous work has investigated whether political instability has a negative effect on economic growth, with mixed results, largely because political instability can take various forms. Using synthetic control methodology, which constructs a counterfactual in the absence of political instability,...

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Does development aid increase military expenditure?

Langlotz, Sarah; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016

The diversion of development aid to the recipient’s military may be one explanation why aid is often found to be … ineffective in promoting economic growth and development. Previous studies have not derived the causal effects of development aid … on military expenditure. Using a new instrumental variable strategy, we examine whether bilateral development aid …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688284

Global governance exit: A Bolivian case study

Molina, George Gray - 2013

This paper describes three Bolivian policy reversals on aid, trade and climate change. The standard IPE explanation for …

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The European Union Looking for the Future. New Forms of Accountability and Governance

Tatarcan, Emiliana Oana - In: CES Working Papers 8 (2016) 1, pp. 197-205

The European Union is more capable than any of its Member Stats, individually to meet the major challenges of the XXI century. It is a political and economic partnership that represents a unique form of cooperation among sovereign countries. The challenges can only be properly understood or...

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Foreign influence and domestic policy: a survey

Aidt, Toke; Albornoz, Facundo; Hauk, Esther - 2019

In an interconnected world, economic and political interests inevitably reach beyond national borders. Since policy choices generate external economic and political costs, foreign state and non-state actors have an interest in inflencing policy actions in other sovereign countries to their...

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