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government institutions while channeling aid and the impact of such practices on aid effectiveness in Africa. Based on an … empirical study of project aid and budget support provided to Malawi by the World Bank, the African Development Bank, and the …-term impact is more uncertain. The bypassing of local institutions results in the fragmentation of aid, a lack of coordination …
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Motivated by a recent setback in the fight against child malnutrition, this study explores whether aid projects help to … reduce stunting, or impaired growth, among children in the local area. Focusing on Malawi, a country with very high stunting … prevalence and for which we have access to geo-referenced data on aid projects from a broad range of donors, we geographically …
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Motivated by a recent setback in the fight against child malnutrition, this study explores whether aid projects help to … reduce stunting, or impaired growth, among children in the local area. Focusing on Malawi, a country with very high stunting … prevalence and for which we have access to geo-referenced data on aid projects from a broad range of donors, we geographically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013490610
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In the development literature, there exists no systematic study of external borrowing in post-conflict countries. We address this gap by analyzing statistical and case study evidence from three African countries. We find that many war-affected countries face rising debt arrears and deteriorating...
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countries. We combine geo-referenced data on the subnational allocation of World Bank aid projects to Africa over the 1995 …Motivated by the lack of sub-national empirical evidence on the relationship between aid and institutional development …, this study explores the local effects of World Bank aid on perceived institutional quality in African aid receiving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012615459
Recent writing on industrial policy stresses the need for coordination between the public and private sectors. This paper examines the performance of one such coordination mechanism, Presidential Investors' Advisory Councils, in Ethiopia, Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda. It finds that the councils...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494237
Recent writing on industrial policy stresses the need for coordination between the public and private sectors. This paper examines the performance of one such coordination mechanism, Presidential Investors' Advisory Councils, in Ethiopia, Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda. It finds that the councils...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408445
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countries. We combine geo-referenced data on the subnational allocation of World Bank aid projects to Africa over the 1995 …Motivated by the lack of sub-national empirical evidence on the relationship between aid and institutional development …, this study explores the local effects of World Bank aid on perceived institutional quality in African aid receiving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012520285