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Aid project proliferation and absorptive capacity
Roodman, David - 2006
Much public discussion about foreign aid has focused on whether and how to increase its quantity. But recently aid quality has come to the fore, by which is meant the efficiency of the aid delivery process. This paper focuses on one process problem, the proliferation of aid projects and the...
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Putting Paris into practice : foreign aid, national ownership, and donor alignment in Mali and Ghana
Brown, Stephen - 2016
This paper examines the application of the first two principles of the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, namely ownership and alignment, to the cases of Mali and Ghana. It argues that Western donors and recipient governments have adopted the Paris Principles mainly in form, rather...
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Enabling civil society for sustainable development : select survey findings
Wood, Jacqueline; Fällman, Karin - 2019
Civil society and civil society organisations (CSOs) are important to development co-operation, both as implementing partners for members of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC), and as development actors in their own right. Agenda 2030 is clear on the necessity of mobilising CSOs to...
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Chapter 26 The economics of international aid
Kanbur, Ravi - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1559-1588). 2006
This paper presents an overview of the economics of international aid, highlighting the historical literature and the contemporary debates. It reviews the “trade-theoretic” and the “contract-theoretic” analytical literature, and the empirical and institutional literature. It demonstrates...
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Measuring and managing the impact of sustainable investments : a two axes mapping
Boiardi, Priscilla - 2020
need to implement effective impact measurement and management practices. Impact management enables investors, enterprises …. Impact measurement allows organisations to set impact objectives, monitor impact performance and evaluate impact. The …, certifications, tools and indicators for impact management and measurement. The crowded nature of this space and the multiplicity and …
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Aid, social policy, and development
Addison, Tony; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Tarp, Finn - 2015
This paper discusses past and current social policy strategies in the international aid architecture. From the 1990s, aid strategy and policy shifted to put a stronger emphasis on human development. This accelerated with the Millennium Development Goals and will continue under the Sustainable...
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Food Aid Allocation Policies : Coordination and Responsiveness to Recipient Country Needs
Kuhlgatz, Christian H.; Abdulai, Awudu; Barrett, … - 2013
We employ censored least absolute deviations and multivariate Tobit estimators to investigate whether food aid flows from the main donor countries respond to recipient country needs as reflected in low food availability, low income, or both. We also explore the hypothesis that donor countries...
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Food Aid Allocation Policies : Coordination and Responsiveness to Recipient Country Needs
Barrett, Christopher B.; Kuhlgatz, Christian; Abdulai, Awudu - 2015
We employ censored least absolute deviations and multivariate Tobit estimators to investigate whether food aid flows from the main donor countries respond to recipient country needs as reflected in low food availability, low income, or both. We also explore the hypothesis that donor countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014182081
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Binding Constraints to Trade Expansion : Aid for Trade Objectives and Diagnostics Tools
Hallaert, Jean-Jacques - 2010
Trade can be a powerful engine for economic growth, poverty reduction, and development. However, harnessing the power of trade is often difficult for developing countries, particularly the least developed countries, because of supply-side domestic constraints (lack of trade-related...
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A Rapid Assessment of Nutrition in Banda Aceh and Aceh Besar, Indonesia, Three Weeks After the Tsunami.
Mokdad, Ali H.; Hipgrave, David; Hudspeth, Claudia; … - Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition … - 2005
of internally displaced persons. Design-- A convenience sample of 614 children aged 6 months to 5 years and 334 women …
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