Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 20,464
Cover Image
HDR 2005 - International cooperation at a crossroads: Aid, trade and security in an unequal world
UNDP - Human Development Report Office, United Nations …
will be measured in human lives, increased inequalities, violations of human rights and threats to peace. International aid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008467219
Cover Image
The long-term effects of development aid - Empirical studies in rural West Africa.
Kohnert, Dirk; Elwert, Georg; Bierschenk, Thomas - In: Economics, Biannual Journal of the Institute for … 47 (1993) 1, pp. 83-111
development aid in the long run, in contrast to numerous available evaluation reports on the short-run effects of development …. Development aid has become an important political and economic factor in most African countries. Its financial impact often … to one another, about the partitioning of the cake of development aid. Normally this struggle between different vested …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327882
Cover Image
Le « Shadow G8 » 2007
Stiglitz, Joseph E.; Laurent, Éloi - In: Revue de l'OFCE n° 102 (2007) 3, pp. 139-154
A diverse group of concerned citizens from around the world (including former government officials and leading economists) met at Columbia University on February 9 2007, under the sponsorship of the Initiative of Policy Dialogue, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, and Erlassjahr, to consider the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008478611
Cover Image
The long-term effects of development aid : empirical studies in rural West Africa
Bierschenk, Thomas; Elwert, Georg; Kohnert, Dirk - 1993
development aid in the long run, in contrast to numerous available evaluation reports on the short-run effects of development …. Development aid has become an important political and economic factor in most African countries. Its financial impact often … to one another, about the partitioning of the cake of development aid. Normally this struggle between different vested …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334892
Cover Image
Does Development Aid Increase Military Expenditure?
Langlotz, Sarah; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016
The diversion of development aid to the recipient's military may be one explanation why aid is often found to be … ineffective in promoting economic growth and development. Previous studies have not derived the causal effects of development aid … on military expenditure. Using a new instrumental variable strategy, we examine whether bilateral development aid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555530
Cover Image
Does Development Aid Increase Military Expenditure?
Langlotz, Sarah; Potrafke, Niklas - 2019
Using a new instrumental variable strategy, we examine whether bilateral development aid increases military expenditure … receiving aid. The dataset includes new data on military expenditure for 124 recipient countries over the 1975–2012 period. When … accounting for outliers, our results do not suggest that development aid affects military expenditure in the full sample. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019145
Cover Image
Does development aid increase military expenditure?
Langlotz, Sarah; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016
The diversion of development aid to the recipient's military may be one explanation why aid is often found to be … ineffective in promoting economic growth and development. Previous studies have not derived the causal effects of development aid … on military expenditure. Using a new instrumental variable strategy, we examine whether bilateral development aid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539046
Cover Image
Does development aid increase military expenditure?
Langlotz, Sarah; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016 - This version: September 2016
The diversion of development aid to the recipient’s military may be one explanation why aid is often found to be … ineffective in promoting economic growth and development. Previous studies have not derived the causal effects of development aid … on military expenditure. Using a new instrumental variable strategy, we examine whether bilateral development aid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011542201
Cover Image
Does development aid increase military expenditure
Langlotz, Sarah; Potrafke, Niklas - 2019
Using a new instrumental variable strategy, we examine whether bilateral development aid increases military expenditure … receiving aid. The dataset includes new data on military expenditure for 124 recipient countries over the 1975−2012 period. When … accounting for outliers, our results do not suggest that development aid affects military expenditure in the full sample. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019746
Cover Image
Aid and poverty: Why does aid not address poverty (much)?
Shepherd, Andrew; Bishop, Sylvia - 2013
not worked well. Aid to conflict-affected countries is itself in crisis. Much greater and more integrated aid is called …Aid is not generally aimed at the poorest people, though most multilateral or bilateral agencies would like to think … responses. Equity is far from being a strong principle of aid givers UNICEF is the exceptional agency. The human rights based …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319829