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Regional and ethnic favoritism in the allocation of humanitarian aid
Bommer, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Pérez-Alvarez, Marcello - 2018
International humanitarian aid is pivotal in the response to natural disasters suffered by low-and middle … political leaders and the geographic distribution of ethnic groups within countries with high numbers of natural disasters … Disaster Assistance (OFDA) disburses larger amounts of aid when natural disasters affect the birth region of the countries …
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Regional and ethnic favoritism in the allocation of humanitarian aid
Bommer, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Pérez-Alvarez, Marcello - In: Essays on health and development, (pp. 54-83). 2018
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Japan's Strategy for Economic Cooperation with Asian Countries
Sawada, Yasuyuki - In: Public Policy Review 10 (2014) 1, pp. 53-76
As Asia has made remarkable progress in economic development and poverty reduction, the global balance of economic power, in which the United States, Japan and Europe have acted as the three major forces, is changing drastically. In light of the new development, this paper discusses what kind of...
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Distortions in aid allocation of United Nations flash appeals: Evidence from the 2015 Nepal earthquake
Eichenauer, Vera Z.; Fuchs, Andreas; Kunze, Sven; … - 2019
We examine the role of local need and various distortions in the design and implementation of United Nations flash appeal triggered in response to the destructive 2015 Nepal earthquake. Specifically, we investigate the extent to which the allocation of this humanitarian assistance follows...
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Food Aid and Violent Conflict: A Review of Literature
Koppenberg, Maximilian; Mishra, Ashok K.; Hirsch, Stefan - 2023
We decompose the relationship between food aid and conflict into the channels through which food aid can affect conflict. We address questions of methodological choice and estimation techniques for empirical studies. Our review of the empirical evidence on the effect of food aid on conflict...
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A model of international development cooperation: The case of Slovenia
Rogelj, Janez; Bojnec, Štefan; Logožar, Klavdij - In: Naše gospodarstvo / Our Economy 69 (2023) 1, pp. 1-9
Development aid, one of the most important mechanisms for the redistribution of global wealth, represents financial flows with economic growth and social improvement as their primary objective. Recently, international development cooperation has been in the process of change that requires the...
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EU aid: What works and why
Nielson, Poul - 2012
Over the years EU aid has been much discussed - and criticized. Besides the accusations of being old fashioned, slow and bureaucratic there is also the complexity of a close neighbourship with the EU's foreign policy in general, trade and the eternal question for Europe of what to do as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319819
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Government repression and the death toll from natural disasters
Costa, Samia - 2012
Natural disasters have been a major cause of human suffering. Countries with higher income, lower inequality, lower … corruption, and more democratic regimes have been found to experience less casualties from disasters. Government repression … either end of the distribution experiencing lower fatalities. -- natural disasters ; government repression ; disaster …
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Foreign Aid in the Aftermath of Large Natural Disasters
Noy, Ilan - 2013
This paper examines Official Development Assistance (ODA) in the aftermath of large natural disasters between 1970 and … only 3 percent of the total estimated economic damages caused by the disasters. The main determinants of post-disaster aid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087892
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Sanctions and Humanitarian Concerns : Ireland and Angola, 2001-2
Kevlihan, Rob - 2009
Angola is a country that has been racked by conflict for the last 40 years. The impact of the conflict on the people of Angola has been devastating. Angola's post-independence conflict has been marked by prolonged involvement of the international community, both during the Cold War and in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764516