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The effects of foreign aid on refugee flows

Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Langlotz, Sarah - 2018

observe long-run effects after four three-year periods, which appear to be driven by lagged positive effects of aid on growth. …

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Democracy and aid donorship

Fuchs, Andreas; Müller, Angelika - 2018 - This version: September 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' likelihood...

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Making aid work : governance and decentralization

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2014

Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort into having an effect. A department may come into conflict with other departments because of...

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Does foreign aid harm political institutions?

Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - 2015

The notion that foreign aid harms the institutions of recipient governments remains prevalent. We combine new disaggregated aid data and various metrics of political institutions to re-examine this relationship. Long-run cross-section and alternative dynamic panel estimators show a small...

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Does aid for education attract foreign investors? : an empirical analysis for Latin America

Donaubauer, Julian; Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2013

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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Financing for refugee situations

OECD - 2019

Forced displacement, including refugee flows, is a global phenomenon. As of 2018, 26 million people were refugees. Financing from the international community makes a significant contribution to supporting refugees and host communities. But in order to meet those needs effectively and...

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Can aid buy foreign public support? : evidence from Chinese development finance

Wellner, Lukas; Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, Bradley - 2022

Bilateral donors use foreign aid to pursue soft power. We test the effectiveness of aid in reaching this goal by leveraging a new dataset on the precise commitment, implementation, and completion dates of Chinese development projects. We use data from the Gallup World Poll for 126 countries over...

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Can aid buy foreign public support? : Evidence from Chinese development finance

Wellner, Lukas; Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, Bradley - 2022

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The impact of adult civic education programmes in developing democracies

Finkel, Steven E. - 2013

education programmes in emerging democracies? After more than a decade of evaluations of civic education programmes, it is a … the late 1990s, and summarize their most important findings and lessons learned. It will be shown that civic education … education is not being realized in practice. I conclude with a discussion of current developments in the field, as a significant …

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Effectiveness of foreign aid in poverty reduction in Africa : the role of fiscal policy

Iwegbu, Onyebuchi; Dauda, Risikat O. S. - In: CBN journal of applied statistics 13 (2022) 1, pp. 55-92

policy on education and health. The study employs panel dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS) estimation technique and covers … the period 1980-2017. The results reveal that foreign aid augmented with effective fiscal policy on education … and consumption in West and Southern regions. Furthermore, foreign aid augmented with effective fiscal policy in education …

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