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Can trade policy help mobilize financial resources for economic development?
Drábek, Zdeněk; Laird, Samuel - 2001 - Manuscript date: 29 August, 2001
The linkages between trade and resource mobilization are complex and not well defined in theory. To what extent does trade policy affect resource mobilization and what are the mechanisms? We argue that trade policy is a key factor of influencing the domestic fundamental balance between aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010211078
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The World Bank's health projects in Timor-Leste : the political economy of effective aid
Rosser, Andrew; Bremner, Sharna - 2013
The World Bank's health sector projects in Timor-Leste - the Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project and … the Second Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project - have been among the few successful operations it has … resistance to the World Bank's health policy agenda compared to its policy agenda in other sectors. In terms of wider lessons, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010187171
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The costs of favoritism: Is politically-driven aid less effective?
Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Raymond, James; Werker, Eric - 2010
As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302713
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The costs of favoritism: Is politically-driven aid less effective?
Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2010
As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332994
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The costs of favoritism: is politically-driven aid less effective?
Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2010
As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269460
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Strategic interaction and donor policy determination in a domestic setting
Murshed, S. Mansoob - 2002
This paper examines some of the issues associated with the aid donor process arising from the theory of agency or principal-agent models and endogenous policy determination. The principals may be viewed as legislators and the agents as the aid agency. In addition to adverse selection and moral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279281
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Foreign assistance and the food crisis of 2007 - 08
Abbott, Philip - 2012
Dramatically increased international agricultural commodity prices from 2007 to mid-2008 brought food inflation and greater incidence of poverty and malnutrition to developing countries. Higher food prices in 2011 threaten to repeat that crisis. The international community responded strongly to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319859
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Does aid availability affect effectiveness in reducing poverty?
Bourguignon, François; Platteau, Jean-Philippe - 2012
This paper addresses the issue of the impact of aid supply on aid effectiveness. We proceed in two steps. First, we review research works that deal with the problem of governance in donor-recipient relationships and are susceptible of highlighting effects of aggregate aid availability. Second,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319879
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The political economy of aid flows to North Africa
Harrigan, Jane - 2011
This paper provides an historical overview of aid flows to North Africa. It assesses the aid allocation process and argues that past aid flows to the region have been heavily influenced by donor political interests. This has reduced the effectiveness of aid which, with the exception of Tunisia,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280088
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Aid and growth : new evidence using an excludable instrument
Dreher, Axel; Langlotz, Sarah - 2015
We use an excludable instrument to test the effect of foreign aid on economic growth in a sample of 96 recipient countries over the 1974-2009 period. We interact donor government fractionalization with a recipient country's probability of receiving aid. The results show that fractionalization...
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