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Can Foreign Aid Create an Incentive for Good Governance? Evidence from the Millennium Challenge Corporation

Johnson, Doug; Zajonc, Tristan - 2006

corresponding increase in growth rates …

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Who Carries the Burden of Reproductive Health and Aids Programs? - Evidence from OECD Donor Countries

van Dalen, Hendrik P. - 2006

This paper tries to establish who carries the burden in supporting reproductive health and AIDS programs worldwide. The 1994 International Conference of Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo established goals for the expansion of assistance in matters of reproductive health and AIDS. This...

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

Ul Haque, Nadeem; Khan, M. A. - 1998

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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What Drives Donor Funding in Population Assistance Programs?

van Dalen, Hendrik P.; Reuser, Mieke - 2005

The 1994 International Conference of Population and Development (ICPD) established goals for the expansion of population assistance. This global effort has so far not sufficiently been supported by donor funds. Dynamic panel estimation methods are used to see what lies behind the sharing of...

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The Macroeconomic Effects of Foreign Aid : A Survey

Harms, Philipp; Lutz, Matthias - 2004

growth. We then discuss the empirical evidence, giving particular attention to the role of institutions and policies in …

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Counting Chickens When They Hatch : The Short-Term Effect of Aid on Growth

Clemens, Michael A.; Radelet, Steven; Bhavnani, Rikhil R - 2004

education (likely to have no relationship to growth over four years); and (3) aid that plausibly could stimulate growth in four …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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Aid, Governance, and Private Foreign Investment : Some Puzzling Findings and a Possible Explanation

Harms, Philipp; Lutz, Matthias - 2003

Does official aid pave the road for private foreign investment or does it suffocate private initiative by diverting resources towards unproductive activities? In this paper we explore this question using data for a large number of developing and emerging economies. Controlling for countries'...

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The Role of Aid for Trade in the European Union’s Development Policy

Udvari, Beata - 2011

Aid for Trade is a new international program to help developing countries meet the challenges of the multilateral trading system and benefit from the liberalization process. The European Union as the largest aid provider in the world is among the donors which has accepted this program and...

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Democracy and Aid Donorship

Fuchs, Andreas; Müller, Angelika - 2018

Almost half of the world’s states provide bilateral development assistance. While previous research takes the set of donor countries as exogenous, this article is the first to explore the determinants of aid donorship. We hypothesize that democratic institutions reduce poor countries’...

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Fighting Fire with Aid : Development Assistance as Counterinsurency Tool - Evidence for Colombia

Sanchez-Cuevas, Edgar H. - 2018

I study the causal effect of the foreign aid for development assistance —implemented by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)— on the intensity of municipality-level armed conflict in Colombia, for the period 2009-2013. To address potential endogeneity biases, I use a...

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