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Doucouliagos, Hristos; Paldam, Martin - 2008

The AEL (aid effectiveness literature) is econometric studies of the macroeconomic effects of development aid. It contains about 100 papers of which 68 are reduced form estimates of the effect of aid on growth in the recipient country. The raw data show that growth is unconnected to aid, but the...

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Does aid for education attract foreign investors? : an empirical analysis for Latin America

Donaubauer, Julian; Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2013

We address the question of whether foreign aid helps attract foreign direct investment (FDI). This could be achieved if well targeted aid removed critical impediments to higher FDI inflows. In particular, we test the hypothesis that aid for education is an effective means to increase FDI flows...

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Democracy and Aid Donorship

Fuchs, Andreas; Müller, Angelika - 2018

Almost half of the world’s states provide bilateral development assistance. While previous research takes the set of …

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Responding to refugee crises in developing countries : what can we learn from evaluations?

Ruaudel, Héloïse; Morrison-Métois, Susanna - 2017

Displacement is at a historic high, with over 65 million individuals currently displaced. The world is facing a refugee …

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Does foreign aid harm political institutions?

Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - 2015

The notion that foreign aid harms the institutions of recipient governments remains prevalent. We combine new disaggregated aid data and various metrics of political institutions to re-examine this relationship. Long-run cross-section and alternative dynamic panel estimators show a small...

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The Political Economy of Project Preparation : An Empirical Analysis of World Bank Projects

Kilby, Christopher - 2011

examine factors that affect how quickly World Bank projects proceed from identification to approval, i.e., how long it takes … to prepare a project. Accelerated preparation is one explanation for how the World Bank might increase the number of … donor countries on important UN votes or while that country occupies an elected seat on the UN Security Council or the World …

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The Political Economy of Project Preparation : An Empirical Analysis of World Bank Projects

Kilby, Christopher - 2011

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The determinants of selection and allocation decisions for health assistance : which role do health indicators play?

Stepping, Katharina - 2012

This paper analyzes the selection and allocation decisions of major and like-minded bilateral donors as regards development assistance for health for the period of 1990 till 2007. The central question is to what extent health indicators, reflecting the health objectives stated in the Millennium...

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Do poor health conditions lead to higher allocation of development assistance?

Stepping, Katharina - 2012

This paper analyzes the targeting of development assistance for health across countries in a multivariate regression framework, based on data from 22 bilateral donors to 160 recipients between 1990 and 2007. Donor characteristics, recipient characteristics and the donor-recipient-relationship...

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Migration's income and poverty impact has been underestimated

Schiff, Maurice W. (contributor) - 2006

This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing studies have typically overlooked a feature of migration that should be taken into account in estimating its impact, namely the fact that migration changes the size of the...

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