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Climate change and poverty reduction : where does official development assistance money go?
Kalirajan, Kaliappa; Singh, Kanhaiya; Shandre Mugan … - 2011
There is an urgent need to mainstream the key challenges of climate change into sector and development planning and decision making processes to create sustainable long-term development. Mainstreaming is seen as making more efficient and effective use of financial and human resources. It is...
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Climate Change and Poverty Reduction — Where Does Official Development Assistance Money Go?
Kalirajan, Kaliappa; Singh, Kanhaiya; Thangavelu, Shandre M. - 2014
There is an urgent need to mainstream the key challenges of climate change into sector and development planning and decision making processes to create sustainable long-term development. Empirical results in this study emphasize that more caution is needed in directing overseas development aid...
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The new global agenda and the future of the multilateral development bank system
Bhattacharya, Amarendra; Kharas, Homi Jamshed; Plant, … - 2018
infrastructure needs to be built in the next 15 years than the existing stock of infrastructure in the world. Multilateral …
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Die Sachs-Easterly-Kontroverse : "Dissent on Development" revisited
Hielscher, Stefan - 2008
Der entwicklungsökonomische Diskurs ist aktuell geprägt durch eine kontroverse Debatte zwischen Jeffrey Sachs und William Easterly. Der Beitrag rekonstruiert beide Ansätze aus ordonomischer Perspektive. Er argumentiert, dass eine auf Kooperation angelegte Semantik vergleichsweise besser...
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Shooting the messenger of good news : a critical look at the World Bank's success story of effective aid
Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2002
In a report presented at the UN Conference on Financing for Development in March 2002, the World Bank claims that the … policies. However, the World Bank's success story rests on an extremely weak foundation: First, the institution's contribution … the distribution of World Bank financing. Second, the picture portrayed in the report takes a bad turn if only two …
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The international fiscal implications of global poverty reduction and global public goods provision
Fitzgerald, Edmund V. K. - 2013
The mixed record on the 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets and the focus on global public goods in post-MDG debates questions the future of traditional development co-operation (official development assistance, ODA). Meanwhile, international financial crisis and fiscal retrenchment...
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Aid for Trade - How Does the WTO Try to Help the Poor?
Udvari, Beata - 2013
This paper presents a review of the Aid for Trade program introduced by the World Trade Organization in 2005. Although … of international trade and the liberalization process happened so far, then it details the world trade trends. The next …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014202737
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Making aid work : governance and decentralization
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2015
Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort into having an effect. A department may come into conflict with other departments because of...
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Delivering good aid in hard places : the Yemen Social Fund for Development approach
Al-Iryani, Lamis; De Janvry, Alain; Sadoulet, Elisabeth - 2013
, and in particular the World Bank, to combat national poverty and reinforce the limited existing social safety net. Since …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009788420
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Making aid work : governance and decentralization
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2014
Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort into having an effect. A department may come into conflict with other departments because of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010437089