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Has assistance from USAID been successful in promoting and sustaining democracy? Evidence from the transition economies of Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Freytag, Andreas; Heckelman, Jac C. - 2011
Foreign aid, especially official development assistance (ODA), has received increasing criticism in past decades. In … cases, it seems that there is no discernable effect or even a negative effect of ODA on economic development. One reason for … should concentrate more on creating better institutions. In the past 20 years, democracy promotion has become a pillar of …
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The long-term effects of development aid : empirical studies in rural West Africa
Bierschenk, Thomas; Elwert, Georg; Kohnert, Dirk - 1993
This article is based on field studies in rural West Africa. It concentrates on the socio-structural effects of development aid in the long run, in contrast to numerous available evaluation reports on the short-run effects of development projects. The study reveals that superficial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334892
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Three Steps Towards More Effective Development Assistance
Rose, Jim; Hay, Simon - 2001
There are three steps New Zealand can take to make its bilateral development assistance more effective in reducing poverty. These steps are ‘easy' because they are unilateral: they improve the effectiveness of development assistance without requiring changes in the politics or policies of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115479
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Three Steps Towards More Effective Development Assistance
Rose, Jim; Hay, Simon - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2001
There are three steps New Zealand can take to make its bilateral development assistance more effective in reducing poverty. These steps are ‘easy’ because they are unilateral: they improve the effectiveness of development assistance without requiring changes in the politics or policies of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005121023
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The long-term effects of development aid - Empirical studies in rural West Africa.
Kohnert, Dirk; Elwert, Georg; Bierschenk, Thomas - In: Economics, Biannual Journal of the Institute for … 47 (1993) 1, pp. 83-111
This article is based on field studies in rural West Africa. It concentrates on the socio-structural effects of development aid in the long run, in contrast to numerous available evaluation reports on the short-run effects of development projects. The study reveals that superficial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327882
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Können die Experten das, was sie sollen? Schwachstellen des sozio-kulturellen Rahmenkonzeptes des BMZ
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit (E + Z) 33 (1992) 7, pp. 4-5
Soziokulturelle Länderkurzanalysen wurden Anfang der 1990er Jahre zum festen Bestandteil der “Länderkonzepte", dem neuen zentralen Managementinstrument der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. Die Quintessenz dieses Ansatzes wurde in der Frage zusammengefaßt: Wollen und können die...
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Können die Experten das, was sie sollen? : Schwachstellen des sozio-kulturellen Rahmenkonzeptes des BMZ
Kohnert, Dirk - 1992
Soziokulturelle Länderkurzanalysen wurden Anfang der 1990er Jahre zum festen Bestandteil der "Länderkonzepte", dem neuen zentralen Managementinstrument der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. Die Quintessenz dieses Ansatzes wurde in der Frage zusammengefaßt: Wollen und können die...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011899450
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HDR 2005 - International cooperation at a crossroads: Aid, trade and security in an unequal world
UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …
This 2005 Human Development Report takes stock of human development, including progress towards the MDGs. Looking beyond statistics; it highlights the human costs of missed targets and broken promises. Extreme inequality between countries and within countries is identified as one of the main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008467219
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Causal Inference and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): Assessing Whether There Was an Acceleration in MDG Development Indicators Following the MDG Declaration
Friedman, Howard Steven - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
-term broader economic trends where, for example, official development assistance (ODA) comprises only a very minor part of the … progress was triggered following the September 2000 Declaration and the associated increase in ODA. Contrarily, the data show … that the MDGS provided an acceleration post-2000 in a subset of countries (i.e. sub-Saharan Africa or heavily ODA dependent …
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Inter-sectoral terms of trade and investible surplus
Fardmanesh, Mohsen - 2017
This paper studies the validity of the Preobrazhensky's First Proposition, P1, for the centrally planned Poland during the period of 1960-1987 by testing whether the state increased its internal accumulation, investible surplus, by reducing the inter-sectoral terms of trade between agriculture...
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