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The End of Poverty Alleviation? Effects of Shifting Global Wealth on Aid Allocation and Graduation from Foreign Aid Eligibility

Schlogl, Lukas - 2013

What happens to foreign aid when developing countries get richer?In this paper, I first show that, since the mid-1990s, many recipients of official development assistance have been experiencing sustained economic progress and that they are projected to do so. I proceed with presenting historical...

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Regions and Super-Regions in Economic Development : Global Demarcations in the Impact of Foreign Aid on Foreign Investment

Nicholson, Michael W. - 2013

contrasts the relative homogeneous and heterogeneous influences of time-series panel data allows regions in the developing world …

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Bilaterale und Multilaterale Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (Bilateral and Multilateral Development Cooperation)

Klingebiel, Stephan - 2014

Against the background of a longstanding discussion of advantages of bilateral and multilateral aid approaches the paper discusses mainly two aspects: (i) The distinction between bilateral and multilateral development cooperation is in practice often not clear. In particular, the EU aid approach...

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Financing Growth : Foreign Aid vs. Foreign Loans

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2013

Compared to foreign grants, do concessional loans from foreign governments and/or unsubsidized loans from foreign private banks lead to faster growth in developing nations? The answer has implications for aid agencies (i) in allocating a given amount of resources between grants and concessional...

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Rules of Redistribution and Foreign Aid : A Proposal for Change in Rules Governing Eligibility for Foreign Aid

Milanovic, Branko - 2006

When income is redistributed at national level, the minimum requirement is that the transfers should be progressive, that is flow from richer to poorer individuals. The same rule should hold at the global level: it is not sufficient that transfers be from a richer to a poorer country. But...

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Aid and Development

Mohey-ud-din, Ghulam - 2019

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Role of Aid Politics on Its Effectiveness for Global Development Purposes

Hassan, Hashibul - 2019

Foreign aid has been distributing for many decades with the ‘theoretical' expectation that it will work as a catalyst for development by boosting domestic savings, investment and economic activities. But in ‘practice,' foreign aid has been debated for its performance. Particularly in the...

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Foreign Aid and Corruption : Clarifying Murky Empirical Conclusions

Efobi, Uchenna - 2019

This note reconciles an on-going debate on the effect of foreign aid on corruption by introducing a previously missing heterogeneity dimension of aid. The relationship was estimated using dynamic system GMM and quantile regressions (QR). Results show that both narratives in the debate are...

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Allocation of Implementing Power : Evidence from World Bank Projects

Marchesi, Silvia - 2019

In this paper we explore the factors that determine the level at which World Bank projects are implemented. In … dataset that provides information on more than 5800 World Bank projects for the period 1995-2014, and controlling for … probability that a World Bank project will be implemented locally by 3 percent …

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Tracking international aid projects for ocean conservation and climate action

Shiiba, Nagisa; Maekawa, Miko; Vegh, Tibor; Virdin, John - 2022

Ocean conservation and sustainable use cannot be pursued or achieved without consideration of the planetary impacts of climate change, and particularly the role of the oceans in both mitigation and adaptation. For this reason, the international community has increasingly committed to providing...

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