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Keeping refugee children in school and out of work: evidence from the world's largest humanitarian cash transfer program

Aygün, Aysun Hızıroglu; Kirdar, Murat G.; Koyuncu, Murat - 2021

This paper investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can keep refugee children in school and out of work. We raise this question in the unique context of Turkey, which hosts the world's largest refugee population (including 3.6 million Syrians). Refugees in Turkey are supported by the...

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Keeping refugee children in school and out of work: evidence from the world's largest humanitarian cash transfer program

Aygün, Aysun Hızıroğlu; Kirdar, Murat G.; Koyuncu, Murat - 2021

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012584050

Decentralizing Development : Allocating Public Goods Via Competition

Chavis, Larry W. - 2012

Decentralizing the allocation of public goods by giving funds directly to communities takes advantage of local information concerning needs, but decreases the accountability over how funds are used; leaving funds open to misuse or capture by local elites. In Indonesia, the World Bank attempts to...

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South Sudan : the road from the Paris Declaration to the reality of Juba, 2005 - 11

Larson, Greg - 2013

During Sudan's "interim period" from the end of civil war in January 2005 until South Sudan's independence in July 2011, foreign development agencies provided extensive support and billions of dollars in aid - for which institutional development and capacity building of the nascent Government of...

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Politics, policies, and the effectiveness of foreign aid in fragile states

Ocran, Matthew Kofi - 2023

effectiveness in fragile states. Using data from 2002 to 2020, this paper examines the effects of education aid and health aid on … education outcomes and health outcomes in fragile states. It uses the Arellano-Bover/Blundell-Bond system generalized method of … moments estimator to examine the effect of health aid and education aid on maternal mortality and primary school completion …

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Aid's impact on social protection in low- and middle-income countries

Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Santillán Hernández, Alma S. - 2023

This study conducts an international comparative analysis of the recent evolution of social protection systems in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), and Asia-Pacific (APAC) regions, paying particular attention to the role of foreign aid in these dynamics. It asks:...

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Intellectual Property and Public Health : Meeting the Challenge of Sustainability

Abbott, Frederick M. - 2014

In the decade since the Doha Declaration was adopted, significant progress has been made in addressing problems associated with innovation and access to medicines, including through expanded financial support for procurement and distribution of treatments and vaccines and the establishment of...

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Rethinking the world of aid in the twenty first century

Heller, Peter S. - 2011

Many concerns can be raised about the effectiveness of current aid programmes to developing countries. The appropriateness of aid is particularly questionable when one considers the likely character of the challenges that the global economy will confront in 2025, as suggested by alternative...

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Coordination Failure in Foreign Aid

Halonen-Akatwijuka, Maija - 2005

We analyze allocation of foreign aid to different sectors in a recipient developing country. Donors tend to favor social sectors over other public expenditure programs. Due to incomplete information the donors may concentrate too much on the priority sectors leaving the lower priority, yet...

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Aid's impact on social protection in low- and middle-income countries

Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Santillán Hernández, Alma Sofia - 2023

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477588