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Past research on aid and growth is flawed because it typically examines the impact of aggregate aid on growth over a …) aid that affects growth only over the long term, if at all, such as aid to support democracy, the environment, health, or … positive, causal relationship between this 'short-impact' aid and economic growth (with diminishing returns) over a four …
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We address the pitfalls of averaging by exploiting the longitudinal variation in aid to identify sudden and sharp increases in aid flows. Focusing on specific events, we test if aid accelerations correspond to policies and shocks in the recipient country. For a large sample of 145 recipient...
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. Development aid has become an important political and economic factor in most African countries. Its financial impact often … important dans la plupart des pays africains. Son impact financier dépasse souvent celle du budget national. Il contribue donc …
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We address the pitfalls of averaging by exploiting the longitudinal variation in aid to identify sudden and sharp increases in aid flows. Focusing on specific events, we test if aid accelerations correspond to policies and shocks in the recipient country. For a large sample of 145 recipient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335415
Despite a long-standing controversy about aid-effectiveness in general and the impact of aid-dependency on governance … unbiased evaluation of the hidden adverse impact of aid on collective action at the grassroots. Therefore, a rethinking of … comparative au Burkina Faso et au Togo : En dépit d'une longue controverse à propos de l' efficacité de l'aide en général et de l'impact …
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in emigration. Third, this evidence implies that donors could achieve greater impact by leveraging foreign aid not to …
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High-flying illusions on the part of the proponents and grim predictions on the part of the sceptics have characterised the controversy around Brexit. The article assesses five key issues at stake for post-Brexit relationships between Britain, the EU, and Africa: market access, foreign direct...
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selection of ODA recipients. However, the Swedish case also supports the skeptical view according to which NGOs are unlikely to …
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The paper empirically explores the factors that could have accounted for the generally declining aid effort (defined as the generosity ratio, or the share of GDP given as aid) of bilateral donors over the last three decades. Annual panel data over 1970-2000 period for the 22 DAC members are used...
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Aid (ODA, Official Development Assistance) statistics are routinely produced by the Development Assistance Committee … used to measure aid in general, and ODA in particular. The methodology is applied to some typical aid instruments, such as …
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