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With global disbursements of development assistance peaking at USD 106.8 bn. in 2005, governments are about to redeem their position as leading capital provider to developing nations. An important part of this surge can be attributed to the emergence of newly active donor countries in the...
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, health, or education (likely to have no relationship to growth over four years); and (3) aid that plausibly could stimulate …Past research on aid and growth is flawed because it typically examines the impact of aggregate aid on growth over a … short period, usually four years, while significant portions of aid are unlikely to affect growth in such a brief time. We …
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relative importance of grants over loans in total official flows. This paper - a product of Macroeconomics and Growth …
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There is a growing interest in the debate on aid effectiveness to assess the impact of aid not only on economic growth … and poverty reduction, but also on intermediate outcomes such as health and education. This paper reviews evidence from … recent in-depth country work on the impact of government policies and service provision in health and basic education in …
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This paper explores the impact of foreign aid on economic growth using variation in aid inflows from natural disasters … neighbor droughts to instrument for aid, I show that aid inflows significantly increase per capita GDP growth in the short to … any long-run aid-growth effects …
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The Aid for Trade Initiative needs to be revamped. This article describes the challenges the Initiative faces and describes the pros and cons of possible reforms. The Aid for Trade Initiative succeeded in mobilizing quickly a large amount of financial resources. However, because the Doha Round...
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.1 in absolute value (such as aid with economic growth) may have very large and statistically significant estimated … applied on the "Botswana outliers driven" Burnside and Dollar [2000] article which found that aid had an effect on growth only …
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The Aid for Trade Initiative is an answer to developing countries’ requests for technical and financial assistance in the Doha Round negotiations. These requests prompted the WTO to collaborate with donors and development agencies but no attempt at increasing coherence between trade policy,...
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There is a possibility that the development ministers of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) will agree on a new definition of official development assistance (ODA) at the end of 2014. Ongoing discussions on this matter may appear purely "technical" at first glance....
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A review of large North American Protestant congregations (n = 423) engaging in global relief and development, or ‘holistic mission’ (HM), suggests that half engage in HM activities per year, with the majority of those activities focused on human and physical sectors. Most activities are led...
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