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Patterns of Vulnerability to AIDS Impacts in Zambian Households

Garbero, Alessandra - 2019

Using household data from Northern Zambia, this article looks at HIV/AIDS impacts on different aspects of people … and orphans that are headed by men, women and the elderly. It is argued that vulnerability levels to HIV/AIDS impact … their responsiveness. Households affected by HIV/AIDS cannot be treated as a homogeneous group and understanding the …

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Better Policies from Policy-Selective Aid?

Annen, Kurt - 2019

This paper shows that the increased policy-selectivity of aid allocations observed in recent years provides recipient countries an incentive to improve policies. The paper estimates that a change in the World Banks Country Policy and Institutional Assessment policy index from 1.5 to 2 for a...

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Emergency Aid 2.0

Fuchs, Andreas - 2014

Does the proliferation of aid donors lead to visible changes in the world of foreign assistance? Aid provided by low- and middle-income countries, autocratic regimes and donors operating outside the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the OECD is gaining in importance. This article uses...

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Review of National HIV/AIDS Strategies for Countries Participating in the World Bank's Africa Multi-Country AIDS Program

Mullen, Patrick - 2005

The overall development objective of the World Bank's Multi-Country HIV/AIDS Program (MAP) for the Africa Region is to … increase access to HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment programs, with emphasis on vulnerable groups. The specific … evidence of a strategic approach to HIV/AIDS" is one of four eligibility criteria. This is to be demonstrated by "a coherent …

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Hearts or Minds? Persuasive Messages on Climate Change and the Global Aids Crisis

Busby, Joshua - 2010

issues, climate change and the AIDS crisis in the developing world. Using an experimental design, this paper reports the … the direct risks or costs to individuals or the country are lower (like the global AIDS crisis), moral messages are more …

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Transforming the Aid Environment

Gestsson, Thorsteinn Hjalmar - 2009

Although many nations have promised to commit 0.7% of GNI to relieve suffering and secure the enjoyment of basic human rights, no one is able to hold them accountable for not living up to their commitments. When it comes to aid assistance, national governments and the global-community do not...

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Democracy, dictatorship, and disease : political regimes and HIV/AIDS

Justesen, Mogens K. - In: European journal of political economy 28 (2012) 3, pp. 373-389

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Effective Aid, Better Health

2008

This report draws a range of new analyses and case studies carried out in preparation for the Accra High-Level Forum held in September 2008. It it is organized into four parts. Part 1 examines trends in aid for health from a global perspective, focusing both on how increases in aid finance have...

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Priorities in Global Assistance for Health, Aids and Population (HAP)

MacKellar, Landis - 2005

In this paper, trends in official development assistance (ODA) for Health AIDS and Population (HAP) are analysed to … gain information about revealed priorities. The major findings are as follows: HIV/AIDS is clearly the top priority in … HIV/AIDS is excluded, health assistance is actually losing, not gaining share in total ODA. Even more striking, apart from …

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Does aid affect inequality?

Kasuga, Hidefumi; Morita, Yuichi - In: Applied economics 50 (2018) 58, pp. 6249-6262

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