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Aid fragmentation and donor transaction costs

Anderson, Edward - In: Economics Letters 117 (2012) 3, pp. 799-802

This paper shows that the fragmentation of bilateral donors’ aid across recipient countries tends to raise their transaction costs. It is estimated that bilateral donors could reduce their transaction costs by US$2.5 billion per year through greater recipient country specialisation.

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The determinants of selection and allocation decisions for health assistance. Which role do health indicators play?

Stepping, Katharina - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2012

This paper analyzes the selection and allocation decisions of major and like-minded bilateral donors as regards development assistance for health for the period of 1990 till 2007. The central question is to what extent health indicators, reflecting the health objectives stated in the Millennium...

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Climate Change Adaptation, Development, and International Financial Support: Lessons from EU Pre-Accession and Solidarity Funds

Przyluski, Valentin; Hallegatte, Stéphane - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

Funding adaptation requires adequate governance and there are different ways to organise and channel the funds to where it is most efficient and most necessary. This paper investigates this issue and studies the practical implementation of a development under conditionality, namely...

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Do poor health conditions lead to higher allocation of development assistance?

Stepping, Katharina - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2012

This paper analyzes the targeting of development assistance for health across countries in a multivariate regression framework, based on data from 22 bilateral donors to 160 recipients between 1990 and 2007. Donor characteristics, recipient characteristics and the donor-recipient-relationship...

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Samaritan's Dilemma, Time-Inconsistency and Foreign Aid: A Review of Theoretical Models

Kumar, Alok - Department of Economics, University of Victoria - 2014

Aid by altruistic donors may induce recipients to reduce their own contribution to development efforts in order to elicit more aid from donors. Help by well-intentioned donors may reduce the welfare of needy. Donors may not be able to deter deviant recipients as any punishment involves reducing...

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China's Economic Cooperation with Africa

Giovannetti, Giorgio; lippo, Marco Sanfi - In: Journal of African Development 13 (2011) 2

China, still considered itself a developing country, is becoming an increasingly important ‘new’ donor for many African countries. Its own model of foreign assistance, providing aid in the form of economic cooperation based on the achievement of mutual economic benefits and on the principle...

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Aid and Vulnerability

Presbitero, Andrea Filippo - Money and Finance Research group (Mo.Fi.R.) - 2013

Managing and identifying risks are a key challenge for Low Income Countries (LICs), which are extremely vulnerable to exogenous shocks. However, the use of risk management tools by developing countries is quite limited. The paper discusses in which ways aid could strengthen the capacity of LICs...

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Does Aid for Education Attract Foreign Investors? An Empirical Analysis for Latin America

Donaubauer, Julian; Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

education is an effective means to increase FDI flows to host countries in Latin America where schooling and education appears … countries over the period from 1984 to 2008. We find that aid for education has a statistically significant positive effect on …

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Assessment of effectiveness of Chinese aid in competence building and financing development in Sudan

Nour S. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

sanctions, it can still proceed with competence building and finance a high growth strategy if it is endowed with natural … development assistance include technical assistance in the form of scholarships for training and education. The outcome of Chinese …

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Rational Asymmetric Development, Piketty and Poverty in Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016

higher than the growth rate, because the poor cannot catch-up with the rich. We argue that when the return on political … economy (or capitalism-fuelled illicit capital flight) is higher than the growth rate in African countries, inequality in … underpinnings of exogenous growth models, catch-up may not be so apparent. Implications for the corresponding upward bias in …

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