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The composition of aid and the fiscal sector in aid-recipient economy: A model

Mavrotas, George; Ouattara, Banzoumana - 2003

Building on recent work in the fiscal response literature, the present paper develops a new fiscal response model, which, for the first time in the relevant literature, combines the ideas of both endogenous and disaggregated aid. We endogenized aid on the grounds that the recipient government...

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Donors' support for microcredit as social enterprise: A critical reappraisal

Nissanke, Machiko - 2002

The donor community has enthusiastically embraced the concept of microfinance as a promising mechanism to attain the objectives of poverty alleviation and microenterprise development. Amid the high expectation, a myth has been inadvertently created that they could be the ultimate solution to...

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Donor relations and sovereignty

Flentø, Johnny; Simao, Leonardo Santos - 2020

As a sovereign country, Mozambique initially relied on international solidarity and managed its donor relations well. Donor dependency entailed some loss of agency for the government as it allowed donors to challenge its capacity but never its authority. However, in the last decade, donor...

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Project Aid and Firm Performance

Marchesi, Silvia; Masi, Tania; Paul, Saumik - 2021

This paper evaluates the effect of development project aid from the World Bank and China on firms' sales growth, using a large dataset of 110864 firms spanning 121 countries between 2001 and 2016. We find that, contrary to the World Bank, Chinese ODA projects increase, on average, firm sales...

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The effect of foreign aid on migration: Global micro evidence from world bank projects

Fuchs, Andreas; Gröger, André; Heidland, Tobias; … - 2023

In response to surging immigration pressure in Europe and the United States, Western policymakers advocate foreign aid as a means to fight the 'root causes' of irregular migration. This article provides the first global evidence of the effects of aid on migration preferences, migration flows,...

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Politics, policies, and the effectiveness of foreign aid in fragile states

Ocran, Matthew Kofi - 2023

effectiveness in fragile states. Using data from 2002 to 2020, this paper examines the effects of education aid and health aid on … education outcomes and health outcomes in fragile states. It uses the Arellano-Bover/Blundell-Bond system generalized method of … moments estimator to examine the effect of health aid and education aid on maternal mortality and primary school completion …

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Optimal decision rules in multilateral aid funds

Dreher, Axel; Simon, Jenny; Valasek, Justin - In: The Review of International Organizations 16 (2021) 3, pp. 689-719

While existing research has suggested that delegating foreign aid allocation decisions to a multilateral aid fund may incentivize recipient countries to invest in bureaucratic quality, our analysis links the fund's decision rules to recipient-country investment by explicitly modeling the...

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Foreign aid and subnational development: A grid cell analysis

Bitzer, Jürgen; Gören, Erkan - 2018

We examine the impact of geo-referenced World Bank development programs on subnational development using equally sized grid cells with a spatial resolution of 0.5 decimal degrees latitude x longitude as the unit of investigation. The proposed grid cell approach solves a number of endogeneity...

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Throwing foreign aid at HIV/AIDS in developing countries: Missing the target?

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2010

We assess empirically whether foreign official development assistance (ODA) has been effective in alleviating HIV/AIDS epidemics, which figures prominently among the Millennium Development Goals. We employ a difference-in-difference-in-differences approach to identify the treatment effect of ODA...

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Who benefits from aid for trade? Comparing the effects on recipient versus donor exports

Hühne, Philipp; Meyer, Birgit; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2013

Recent studies offer an ambiguous picture on the effectiveness of foreign aid in strengthening the export capacity of recipient countries. Moreover, the literature on aid for trade (AfT) has often neglected that exporters in the donor countries may be among the main beneficiaries. We hypothesize...

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