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Determinants of Canadian Bilateral Aid Allocations : Humanitarian, Commercial or Political?

Macdonald, Ryan; Hoddinott, John - 2004

In this paper, we examine the determinants of the allocation of Canadian bilateral aid over the period 1984-2000. We draw on models of donor behaviour that allow us to incorporate humanitarian, commercial and political considerations - the 'trinity of mixed motives' - that affect Canadian aid....

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Transparenting Transparency : Initial Empirics and Policy Applications

Kaufmann, Daniel; Bellver, Ana - 2006

Major conceptual contributions of a number of Nobel-laureates in putting forth a framework linking the citizenry's right to know and access to information with development, have already had a major influence in various fields. However, implementation of transparency-related reforms on the ground...

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An Econometric Approach on Public Expenditure for Education and Economic Growth-Evidence from Bangladesh

Dhar, Soma - 2022

This paper aims to examine an econometric investigation on public expenditure for education and economic growth in Bangladesh. It explores the short-run and long-run dynamic relationship between educational spending and economic growth measured in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the...

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Individual Determinants of Foreign Aid Support : Do Individuals Think Like States?

Prather, Lauren - 2011

Do the determinants of individual support for foreign aid mirror the apparent motives behind state giving? Current theories on why states give foreign aid focus on state-level factors highlighting three main motivations: altruistic, strategic, and economic. This work examines whether these...

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Approaches to Measuring Social Discount Rate : A Bangladesh Perspective

Jalil, Mohammad Muaz - 2014

Social discount rate (SDR) reflects a society's relative valuation on today's well-being versus well-being in the future. This paper reviews various methods of measuring social discount rate, with particular emphasis on Social Rate of Time Preference (SRTP) and Social Opportunity Cost of Capital...

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Growing (Un)Equal : Fiscal Policy and Income Inequality in China and BRIC

Cevik, Serhan - 2015

income inequality. While government spending appears to have a worsening impact, taxation improves income distribution. Even …

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How Does Government Expenditure Impact Sustainable Development? Studying the Multidimensional Link between Budgets and Development Gaps

Guerrero, Omar A; Castañeda Ramos, Gonzalo - 2021

We develop a bottom-up causal framework to study the impact of public spending on high-dimensional and inter-dependent policy spaces in the context of socioeconomic and environmental development. Using data across 140 countries, we estimate the indicator-country-specific development gaps that...

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The Government Shareholder : Regulating Public Ownership of Private Enterprise

Templin, Benjamin A. - 2011

During the subprime financial crisis of 2007-2009, the U.S. transformed its policies from a focus on privatization and deregulation to one where the government plays an active role as a market participant. By the end of the 2009 fiscal year, the U.S. government became one of the largest...

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Mobile phones, institutional quality and entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016

dimensions of entrepreneurship are considered. Two main findings are established with respect to the net effects of the …

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Roots of autocracy

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2017

-colonial autocratic institutions within ethnic groups and the emergence of autocratic institutions across countries. Diversity has … amplified the importance of institutions in mitigating the adverse effects of non-cohesiveness on productivity, while … contributing to the scope for domination, leading to the formation of institutions of the autocratic type. …

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