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Too many cooks in the kitchen? : the division of financing in World Bank projects and project performance

Winters, Matthew S. - 2019

The total funding envelope for World Bank projects is often divided among various state and non-state actors, each of which can have competing ideas about or interests in the project. How does the division of financing relate to overall project effectiveness? I argue that too many funding...

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Do the principles of effective development co-operation improve development outcomes? : the case for clearer definitions and measurement

Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Justino, Patricia; Vaccaro, Andrea - In: Development policy review 42 (2024) 1, pp. 1-23

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AID crowd-out : the effect of ngos on government-provided public services

Qian, Nancy; Deserranno, Erika - 2020

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The differential effects of foreign aid to sub-Saharan Africa

Akame, Afuge; Mavrotas, George - Instituut voor Ontwikkelingsbeleid - 2024

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Is favoritism a threat to Chinese aid effectiveness? : a subnational analysis of Chinese development projects

Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Hodler, Roland; Parks, Bradley - 2019

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Country concepts and the rational actor trap : limitations to strategic management of international NGOs

Kohnert, Dirk - 2004

Growing criticism of inefficient development aid demanded new planning instruments of donors, including international NGOs (INGOs). A reorientation from isolated project-planning towards holistic country concepts and the increasing rationality of a result-orientated planning process were seen as...

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Aid and growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Accounting for transmission mechanisms

Gomanee, Karuna; Girma, Sourafel; Morrissey, Oliver - 2005

This paper is a contribution to the literature on aid and growth. Despite an extensive empirical literature in this … area, existing studies have not addressed directly the mechanisms via which aid should affect growth. We identify … consumption spending. With the use of residual generated regressors, we achieve a measure of the total effect of aid on growth …

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Comment on Lof, Mekasha, and Tarp (2014)

Herzer, Dierk; Nowak-Lehmann, Felicitas; Dreher, Axel; … - In: World Development 70 (2015) C, pp. 389-396

In Nowak-Lehmann et al. (2012), we used time-series methods to investigate the impact of aid on per capita GDP. Lof, Mekasha, and Tarp (LMT, 2014) criticize our econometric approach, our interpretation, and our data-handling procedure which lead to a large share of missing observations in some...

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Aid, policies and growth, redux

Dayton-Johnson, Jeff; Hoddinott, John - Department of Economics, Dalhousie University - 2003

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EVI and its Use. Design of an Economic Vulnerability Index and its Use for International Development Policy

GUILLAUMONT, Patrick - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement … - 2007

As an answer to a need expressed by the UN General Assembly an Economic Vulnerability Index (EVI) has been defined by the Committee for Development Policy. The present paper, which refers to this index, first examines how a structural economic vulnerability index can be designed, in particular...

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