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Planners vs. Searchers in African Agricultural Aid

Easterly, William - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2008) 3

A Planner vs. Searcher paradigm is used to illustrate the lack of positive progress in aid to African agriculture. Planners announce good intentions, raise expectations, but take on no responsibility in meeting them; they determine what to supply, apply global blueprints but lack knowledge of...

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THE EFFECTS OF FOREIGN AID ON THE CREATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH Wenli Cheng, Dingsheng Zhang and Heng-Fu Zou*

Cheng, Wenli; Zhang, Dingsheng; Zou, Heng-Fu - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2006

workers, and foreign aid in the form of low interest rate loans to individuals who invest in education. The model shows that … proportion of individuals investing in education, which means more people converging to the rich equilibrium and higher average …

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Post-Conflict Recovery: Resource Mobilization and Peacebuilding

Boyce, James - Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University … - 2008

Societies embarked on the fragile transition from war to peace face enormous economic, social, and political challenges. In attempting to support this transition, the international community often provides substantial amounts of external assistance. This aid can play an important and...

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Aid Effectiveness and Limited Enforceable Conditionality

Scholl, Almuth - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 12 (2009) 2, pp. 377-391

This paper analyzes optimal foreign aid policy in a neoclassical growth framework with a conflict of interest between …

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The Multilateral Donor Non-System: Towards Accountability and Efficient Role Assignment

Reisen, Helmut - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

Global governance refers to several pillars; one important pillar is the multilateral aid architecture. Its reform can be discussed under the perspectives of representativeness, inclusiveness, and efficiency (of aid delivery).A prerequisite for efficient aid delivery is to map the rising...

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How should donors give foreign aid? Project aid versus budget support

Jelovac, Izabela; Vandeninden, Frieda - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2008

We develop a theoretical model to compare the two major foreign aid modalities: project aid and budget support. These two modalities have a different impact on the production of ‘developmental goods’. Firstly, conditionality can be associated with budget support, but only a subset of the...

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Who carries the Burden of Reproductive Health and AIDS Programs? - Evidence from OECD Donor Countries

Dalen, Hendrik P. van - Tinbergen Institute

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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Reasonable Expectations and the First Millennium Development Goal: How Much Can Aid Achieve?

Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Erickson, Lennart - Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet - 2007

effectiveness of aid in stimulating growth and reducing poverty have yet to yield conclusive results. The present paper takes a … different approach. Using the standard neoclassical growth model, we ask how much should be expected from aid a priori. Using a … range of different parameter values and model specifications, we address three questions. (i) How much growth should aid …

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Does Foreign Aid Increase Foreign Direct Investment?

Selaya, Pablo; Sunesen, Eva R. - Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet - 2008

The notion that foreign aid and foreign direct investment (FDI) are complementary sources of capital is conventional among governments and internationalcooperation agencies. This paper argues that the notion is incomplete. Within the framework of an open economy Solow model we show that the...

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Good Governance and Good Aid Allocation

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 2006

We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The structure of the competition is important to the donor in terms of achieving good governance, and to the...

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