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Institutional Development : Skill Transference Through a Reversal of "Human Capital Flight" or Technical Assistance

Ul Haque, Nadeem - 2006

We examine the issue of technical assistance versus brain drain repatriation as alternative strategies for transferring scarce skills to a skill-poor economy. Technical assistance relies mainly on expatriate skills and labor from the host country, while brain drain repatriation seeks to effect a...

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Do Donor Countries Benefit from Aid for Trade?

Ahn, Soo-Jung - 2017

myriad of researches on the relationship between AfT and growth or exports of recipient countries. But apart from this view …

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Function or Signal? 1st Party or 3rd Party? Local Aid and Foreign Direct Investment

Brazys, Samuel Rueckert - 2019

Recent data advances have opened exciting new avenues for analyzing the political economy of foreign aid. Recent papers have looked at the social, environmental or welfare implications of aid. This paper, however, combines geo-referenced data on foreign aid with a similarly coded dataset of FDI...

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Rolle von Entwicklungsbanken in der internationalen Finanzierung

Nagel, Joachim - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 89 (2020) 3, pp. 35-50

Entwicklungsbanken wie die KfW unterliegen nicht dem Gebot der Gewinnmaximierung, sondern haben das Mandat zur Förderung der wirtschaftlichen, sozialen und ökologischen Entwicklung. Sie helfen Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländern, Unzulänglichkeiten des Marktes zu überbrücken, mit dem Ziel,...

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First Impressions : How Leader Changes Affect Bilateral Aid

Rommel, Tobias - 2017

This paper investigates a new mechanism to explain politically induced changes in bilateral aid. We argue that shifts in the foreign policy alignment between a donor and a recipient country following leadership changes induce reallocation of aid. This is due to heightened uncertainty of...

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Aid and Growth. New Evidence Using an Excludable Instrument

Dreher, Axel - 2017

We use an excludable instrument to test the effect of bilateral foreign aid on economic growth in a sample of 96 … powerful and excludable instrument. Making use of the instrument, our results show no significant effect of aid on growth in … (where abundant aid reduces growth), we find no significant effect of aid on growth in any of these sub-samples. None of the …

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Costs, Benefits and the Political Economy of Aid Coordination : The Case of the European Union

Klingebiel, Stephan - 2016

Although it is not possible to identify a specific, theoretical optimum level of aid coordination for the European Union, there is a broad consensus on the need for reduced transaction costs and greater impact through a stronger adherence to coordination standards. However, neither member states...

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Foreign Aid and Economic Growth in Developing Countries : An Instrumental Variables Approach

Magesan, Arvind - 2016

There is little consensus on the capacity for foreign aid to cause economic growth in developing countries. This is due … Human Rights Treaties at the UN to identify an average causal effect of aid on growth. Our approach allows for heterogeneous … effects of aid on growth across recipients for unobservable reasons, and we thus identify a Local Average Treatment Effect …

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Understanding the Topological Properties of Foreign Aid : A Social Network Perspective

Song, Hongwei - 2016

following systemic shock, impact of aid structure on recipient economic growth. I revisit Rajan and Subramanian (2008) to study … the relationship between recipients' connectivity and their economic growth …

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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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