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The paper discusses the impact of foreign aid on economic growth in Africa. After brief discussion about growth … determinants it goes on to review the available evidence about the impact of aid on African economic growth. Evidence from both … to what type of aid should be given. However, the main focus is on a discussion about how to structure the aid …
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Official development assistance (grants and subsidized loans from foreign aid agencies) is the main source of external … finance in developing countries. These financial aid flows are positively correlated with the recipients' business cycles … show that donors can make an aid recipient idientify high-return projects by conditioning aid on the recipient's committing …
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We investigate whether elected members of the United Nations Security Council receive favorable treatment from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), analyzing panel data on the level of conditionality attached to (a maximum of) 314 IMF arrangements with 101 countries over the period of 1992 to...
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the one hand and policies responsive to the demands of peacebuilding on the other. The preferential allocation of aid to … “good performers,” in the name of maximizing its payoff in terms of economic growth, militates against aid to fragile and … conflict and build peace, but the difficulties that prompted donors to become more selective in aid allocation remain all too …
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This study explores a basic idea in political economy: Trading money for political influence. Our focus is at the level of international institutions, where governments may exploit their influence in one organization to gain leverage over another. In particular, we consider the lending...
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This study explores a basic idea in political economy: Trading money for political influence. Our focus is at the level of international institutions, where governments may exploit their influence in one organization to gain leverage over another. In particular, we consider the lending...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009131557
The global aid environment has changed profoundly over the last decade. New official and nonstate players have emerged … providing aid are being tried. This note summarizes findings presented in the authors’ 2010 publication, Delivering Aid …
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Numerous econometric studies fail to detect a significant and robust relationship between international aid and … relation between aid and its effectiveness in a multi-sector multi-household Computable General Equilibrium (CGE … exporting sectors. While the model simulates the effects of additional aid in Zambia it can be used as a blueprint for other …
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On the question of whether aid stimulates GDP growth, the profession provides inconclusive and often contradictory … findings. While waiting for a stronger consensus, this paper analyzes the direct effect of aid on other non-monetary dimensions … relationship between aid and social development. After controlling for per capita income, the econometric analysis suggests that …
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Two issues stand out in this conversation. The first concerns the unfinished business of the global fight against the scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic performance - affordable and efficient public...
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