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Bahar, Dany - 2017

This paper uses a panel data from developing countries to study the relationship between foreign aid flows and fertility rates. By making use of natural disasters in neighboring countries as an instrumental variable to foreign aid receipts,I find that a percentage point increase in the share of...

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Throwing Foreign Aid at HIV/Aids in Developing Countries : Missing the Target?

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2012

We assess empirically whether foreign official development assistance (ODA) has been effective in alleviating HIV/AIDS …-in-difference-in-differences approach to identify the treatment effect of ODA specifically meant to fight sexually transmitted diseases on HIV/AIDS …, conclusive evidence on significant treatment effects on AIDS-related deaths only exists for the major bilateral source of ODA …

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Crushed Aid : Fragmentation in Sectoral Aid

Frot, Emmanuel; Santiso, Javier - 2009

This paper measures and compares fragmentation in aid sectors. Past studies focused on aggregate country data but a sector analysis provides a better picture of fragmentation. We start by counting the number of aid projects in the developing world and find that, in 2007, more than 90 000...

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The Macroeconomic Treatment of Aid Increases in IMF-Supported Programs

Berndt, Markus - 2008

This note was produced as background to the IEO evaluation of the IMF and Aid to Sub-Saharan Africa. It sets out the technical analysis underpinning the evaluation's estimate for spending and absorption ratios and elaborates further on its scope, rationale and limitations. It also presents more...

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Preventing AIDS : Self-Interest and Public Spirit

Rodwin, Marc A. - 2013

are serious limitations to encouraging self-interested behavior as a means of preventing HIV transmission. An AIDS … environment. It must be nourished and encouraged. The public should evaluate government AIDS policy not only on the basis of its …

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From Millennium Development Goals to Post-2015 Sustainable Development : Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in an Evolving Aid Environment

Hill, Peter S.; Huntington, Dale; Dodd, Rebecca; … - 2015

Using research from country case studies, this paper offers insights into the range of institutional and structural changes in development assistance between 2005 and 2011, and their impact on the inclusion of a sexual and reproductive health and rights agenda in national planning environments....

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Are Service-Delivery NGOs Building State Capacity in the Global South? Experiences from HIV/Aids Programmes in Rural Uganda

Bukenya, Badru - 2015

', a programme by Ugandan NGO TASO to support government health workers and hospitals in improving HIV/AIDS service … ability of government hospitals to deliver HIV/AIDS services, made people living with HIV (PLHIV) visible to the state …

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