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Improving Trade and Transport Services in Tanzania: A General Equilibrium Approach

Eskola, Elina - Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet

The study uses a computable general equilibrium (CGE) approach to simulate the welfare gains of improving trade and transport services in Tanzania up to the year 2015. The model takes into account the regional differences in trading margins and the different production patterns of commercial and...

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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

While a political consensus has emerged to increase aid flows to Sub-Saharan Africa, empirical studies of the 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...

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Educational Attainment, Growth and Poverty Reduction within the MDG Framework: Simulations and Costing for the Peruvian Case

Yamada, Gustavo; Castro, Juan F.; Beltran, Arlette; … - Partenariat en Politiques Économiques (PEP), … - 2008

We propose a model that accounts for the potential feedback between schooling performance, human capital accumulation and long run GDP growth, and links these results with poverty incidence. Our simulation exercise takes into account targets for education indicators and GDP growth itself (as...

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The Millenium Development Goals and Sovereign Debt Write-downs

Ghosal, Sayantan; Thampanishvong, Kannika - Centre for Dynamic Macroeconomic Analysis, University … - 2007

Can sovereign debt write-downs be used to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)? This paper shows that … transparency of domestic governance determines how a sovereign debt write-down is structured to attain the MDGs. When domestic …

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Does Corporate Aid Really Help Fighting Worldwide Poverty? A Case Study of Nestlé's Aid Allocation

Metzger, Laura; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Mahmoud, Toman Omar - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

Having passed the “market test”, private aid is claimed by its proponents to be better-targeted than official development assistance (ODA). But empirical evidence is largely lacking. We contribute to closing this gap by performing a case study of Nestlé, one of the frontrunners among...

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Metas y costos del desarrollo

Christiaensen, Luc; Scott, Christopher; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

This paper presents some analytical techniques to help policymakers gauge the technical and fiscal feasibility of development targets. While each of the techniques discussed below has deficiencies, taken together they have proven very useful in providing a sense of realism to target setting. The...

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Задачи развития и затраты

Christiaensen, Luc; Scott, Christopher; Wodon, Quentin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

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Poverty, Undernutrition, and Child Mortality: Some Inter-Regional Puzzles and their Implications for Research and Policy

Klasen, Stephan - Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (IAI), … - 2007

This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition, and child mortality in developing countries. While there is, as expected, a close aggregate correlation between these measures of deprivation, the measures generate some...

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Accelerating the achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): An actual discussion in Indonesia and Germany

Cahyandito, Martha Fani - 2011

The government of Indonesian is committed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Deadline for the … achievement of MDGs in 2015 is in sight. Many of the targets had been reached by Indonesia, but there are also some homeworks … remain to be done to meet all the MDGs. Aspect of limited government funding is seen to be an obstacle in achieving this …

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Global energy and environmental scenarios: Implications for development policy

Willenbockel, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

As part of a wider review of existing scenario analyses in areas with direct relevance to the future of global development, this paper focuses on two major recent studies: the scenarios contained in the UN Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) and the scenarios developed by the International...

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