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The paper examines how flows of foreign aid have reacted to events of democratization in developing countries. Using a panel dataset of 136 aid receiving countries between 1980 and 2009, aid allocation regressions reveal that donors in general have tended to react to visible, major democratic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775190
The European Union (EU) played an instrumental role in re-starting the international development policies in central and eastern European Member States, but questions remain about how far this policy area has been Europeanized since accession. Focusing on the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011036657
The paper examines how flows of foreign aid have reacted to events of democratization in developing countries. Using a panel dataset of 136 aid receiving countries between 1980 and 2009, aid allocation regressions reveal that donors in general have tended to react to visible, major democratic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019318
The paper examines the main characteristics of the (re)emerging foreign aid policies of the Visegrád countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia), concentrating on the allocation of their aid resources. We adopt an econometric approach, similar to the ones used in the literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010124036
In the paper, we construct a composite indicator to estimate the potential of four Central and Eastern European countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) to benefit from productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI) in the manufacturing sector. Such transfers of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010124375
This paper explores the domestic and international context of Hungary's emerging international development policy. Specifically, it looks at three factors that may influence how this policy operates: membership in the European Union (EU) and potential ‘Europeanization’, Hungary's wider...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010124376
Egy brit hátterű multinacionális cég, a ProCana igen komoly beruházást jelentett be 2007-ben: Mozambik Massingir nevű régiójában egy nagykapacitású bioetanol üzemet kívántak felépíteni. Ennek érdekében összesen 30 000 hektár földet kívántak bérelni a mozambiki...
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According to the textbook approach, the developmental states of the Far East have been considered as strong and autonomous entities. Although their bureaucratic elites have remained isolated from direct pressures stemming from society, the state capacity has also been utilised in order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010124410
The paper examines the main characteristics of the (re)emerging foreign aid policies of the Visegrád countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia), concentrating on the allocation of their aid resources. We adopt an econometric approach, similar to the ones used in the literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010124443
Over the past few years addressing state fragility in the third world has become an important priority in international development cooperation. However, it seems that the international donor community has so far not been able to develop adequate instruments for dealing with the problems posed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010124447