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US Presidential Party Switches Are Mirrored in Global Maternal Mortality

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2021

The Global Gag Rule is a pro-life policy that prohibits aid to overseas non-governmental organisations offering abortion-related information or services. Since first implemented by President Reagan in 1984, it has been enacted under every Republican and revoked under every Democrat. It was...

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US Presidential Party switches are mirrored in global maternal mortality

Bhalotra, Sonia; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2021

We provide estimates of impacts on maternal mortality of swings in US aid for family planning and maternal health driven by switches in implementation of the Global Gag Rule (GGR) with US Presidential Party. The GGR is a pro-life policy that prohibits aid to overseas non-governmental...

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Fiscal Composition and Aid Effectiveness: A Political Economy Model

Mosley, Paul - In: World Development 69 (2015) C, pp. 106-115

In the long run tax effort, we argue, determines the effectiveness of aid, and this relationship operates simultaneously with the negative link in the opposite direction observed by Bräutigam and Knack (2004) and others. Tax effort and the ability of the state to diversify its taxation...

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Fraud in overseas aid and the challenge of measurement

Button, Mark; Lewis, Chris; Shepherd, David; Brooks, Graham - In: Journal of Financial Crime 22 (2015) 2, pp. 184-198

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the challenges of measuring fraud in overseas aid. Design … in overseas aid. However, it argues that, along with other types of measures, it could be used in areas of expenditure in … how to measure fraud in the overseas aid context, with most effort aimed at corruption, which poses some of the same …

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Fiscal composition and aid effectiveness : a political economy model

Mosley, Paul - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 69 (2015), pp. 106-115

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Aid dimension of the Commitment to Development Index: case study of the Czech Republic

Syrovátka, Miroslav; Krylová, Petra - In: International Journal of Sustainable Economy 4 (2012) 4, pp. 323-339

The Commitment to Development Index (CDI) aims to assess rich countries' policies that affect sustainable development perspectives of poor countries and to rank rich countries from this perspective. The index consists of seven components and one of them - foreign aid - is explored in this paper....

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