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Foreign aid in Africa : tracing channels of influence on democratic transitions and consolidation

Resnick, Danielle - 2012

How does aid impact democracy in sub-Saharan Africa? Drawing on existing literature, this study elaborates on the …-offs that remain unresolved. -- accountability ; Africa ; democratic consolidation ; foreign aid ; party systems …

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Country concepts and the rational actor trap : limitations to strategic management of international NGOs

Kohnert, Dirk - 2004

Growing criticism of inefficient development aid demanded new planning instruments of donors, including international NGOs (INGOs). A reorientation from isolated project-planning towards holistic country concepts and the increasing rationality of a result-orientated planning process were seen as...

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Donor's double talk undermines African agency : comparative study of civic agency in Burkina Faso and Togo ; the fabrication of public action in countries <<under an aid regime>> A...

Kohnert, Dirk - 2015 - Draft

Despite a long-standing controversy about aid-effectiveness in general and the impact of aid-dependency on governance in particular, little is known on the effect of donors policies on civic agency for democratization in aid dependent autocratic regimes. In this study it is argued that the...

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Tracking under-reported financial flows : China’s development finance and the aid-conflict nexus revisited

Strange, Austin M.; Parks, Bradley; Tierney, Michael J.; … - 2015

Chinese official finance to Africa from 2000 - 2011. We find that China's commitments amounted to approximately US$ 73 billion …

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Needs-based targeting or favoritism? : the regional allocation of multilateral aid within recipient countries

Öhler, Hannes; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2013

The regional allocation of aid within recipient countries has been largely ignored in the aid allocation literature. We use geocoded data on the location of aid projects financed by the World Bank and the African Development Bank within a sample of 27 recipient countries to assess the claim of...

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Aid, environment, and climate change in Africa : the case of Senegal

Ngaido, Tidiane - 2014

The paper reviews the dynamics of the financing baseed its analysis on the rich dataset of AidData ranging over 1993-2010, with around 9,077 observations on projects funded in Senegal by various multilateral as well as bilateral donors. The study started in the same year as the establishment of...

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Aid, employment, and poverty reduction in Africa

Page, John M.; Shimeles, Abebe - 2014

Growth and poverty reduction in Africa are weakly linked. This paper argues that the reason is that Africa has failed … - has not featured in Africa's post-1995 growth story. As a result, the region's fastest growing economies have the least … responsiveness of employment to growth. The role of development aid in this context is problematic. Across Africa more aid went to …

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Aid and the environment in Africa : a synthesis of eight case studies

Muchapondwa, Edwin - 2014

and Southern Africa. Total aid to these countries' environmental sectors for the 2000s decade is about US$10.17 billion …

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Industrial policy in practice : Africa's Presidential Investors' Advisory Councils

Page, John M. - 2014

Recent writing on industrial policy stresses the need for coordination between the public and private sectors. This paper examines the performance of one such coordination mechanism, Presidential Investors' Advisory Councils, in Ethiopia, Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda. It finds that the councils...

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Aid on demand : African leaders and the geography of China's foreign assistance

Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Hodler, Roland; Parks, Bradley - 2015

development finance projects across 3,097 physical locations committed to Africa over the 2000-2012 period. Our econometric …

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