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term. We combine newly geocoded data on World Bank aid project allocation at the subnational level over the period 2008 …--2019 with exceptionally rich survey data from a sample of almost one million individuals across the entire developing world and … show that in the short term (after the announcement of a World Bank project and within two years after project disbursement …
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This article analyzes whether foreign aid affects the net flows of refugees from recipient countries. Combining refugee … causal effects of a country’s aid receipts on both total refugee flows to the world and flows to donor countries. The …
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As exemplified in the 1995 Mediterranean Declaration of the European Union, migration has become a major concern for European development policies. By enhancing socio-economic conditions through development cooperation, a reduction of South-North migration flows is envisaged. This new approach...
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This contribution investigates the opportunities of migration for developing countries. The benefits of migration for sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and even return home at some time with better human...
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Forced displacement, including refugee flows, is a global phenomenon. As of 2018, 26 million people were refugees …. Financing from the international community makes a significant contribution to supporting refugees and host communities. But in … refugees and host communities. This policy paper presents seven principles for improving financing for refugee situations …
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Climate disaster events are expected to displace at least 1.2 billion people by 2050. However, “climate refugees,” or … to formally recognize climate refugees or provide recommendations for their protection, perpetuating a “legal void” in … the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol, modeled on examples from existing regional agreements — are the strongest …
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This article analyzes whether foreign aid affects the net flows of refugees from recipient countries. Combining refugee … causal effects of a country’s aid receipts on both total refugee flows to the world and flows to donor countries. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315429
This paper investigates through which channels foreign aid impacts migration to donor countries. To disentangle the non-donor-specific channels (development and credit constraint channels) from the donor-specific channels (information and instrumentation channels), we use the fact that...
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Comparing the emigration rates of countries at different stages of economic development, an inverse u-shape emerges. Although merely based on cross-sectional evidence, the "migration hump" is often treated as a causal relationship. Since the peak is located at rather high per capita incomes of...
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