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Aid and Universal Primary Education
D'Aiglepierre, Rohen; Wagner, Laurent - HAL - 2011
Universal Primary Education (UPE) is one of the main objectives of development aid. However, very little empirical …, more disaggregated and more reliable data is used to study the relationship between aid to education and educational …. Our results are very robust and indicate that aid to primary education has a strong effect on primary school enrollment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793517
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Improving aid effectiveness in aid-dependent countries : lessons from Zambia
Beuran, Monica; Raballand, Gaël; Revilla, Julio - HAL - 2011
Zambia was a middle-income country when it achieved independence from Great Britain in 1964. After decades of international aid Zambia has become a low-income country, and its per capita GDP is only now returning to the levels it had reached over forty years ago. While aid is far from the only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011025870
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Absorptive Capacity: More Than the Volume of Aid, its Modalities Matter
Guillaumont, Patrick; Jeanneney, Sylviane Guillaumont - HAL - 2011
We examine whether absorptive capacity represents a valid reason to reject the proposal of a large aid increase in order to help poor countries to move out of the underdevelopment trap. We consider absorptive capacity, the set of limits to an effective use of aid inflows, under for main aspects:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805119
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Thresholds in Aid Effectiveness
Wagner, Laurent - HAL - 2011
Is the big push hypothesis consistent with capacity constraints in the study of aid effectiveness? Big push hypothesis suggests the existence of a minimum threshold below which aid is not effective, while the constraints referred to by the concept of absorptive capacity suggests the existence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805931
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EVI and its Use. Design of an Economic Vulnerability Index and its Use for International Development Policy
Guillaumont, Patrick - HAL - 2011
As an answer to a need expressed by the UN General Assembly an Economic Vulnerability Index (EVI) has been defined by the Committee for Development Policy. The present paper, which refers to this index, first examines how a structural economic vulnerability index can be designed, in particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805951
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Aid Selectivity According to Augmented Criteria
Guillaumont, Patrick; Jeanneney, Sylviane Guillaumont; … - HAL - 2011
A dominant trend in the literature maintains that donor assistance should be targeted to poor countries with sound institutions and policies. In this context, donor selectivity refers to what extent aid is allocated according to the principles of this "canonical" model. This paper shows that it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836795
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Aid effectiveness for poverty reduction:macroeconomic overview and emerging issues
Guillaumont, Patrick - HAL - 2011
The aim of this paper is to examine the main reasons how aid can contribute to poverty reduction, the channels through which it can do so and the lessons of the literature on these issues, with a special focus on the way aid can address the vulnerability faced by many developing countries.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793737
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Teaching Sustainable Development Issues: An Assessment of the Learning Effectiveness of Gaming
Blanchard, Odile; Buchs, Arnaud - HAL - 2014
The article aims at assessing the effectiveness of a role-play in addressing two concerns: clarifying the concept of sustainable development and teaching sustainable development issues. The effectiveness is gauged by surveying students to reveal how the game matches a set of "significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821264
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School Fees, Parental Participation and Accountability: Evidence from Madagascar
LESNE, Frédéric - HAL - 2013
The role of school fees in achieving both allocative and productive efficiency in the delivery of primary education has … by alternative explanations. One of them is that participation aims not to increase education quality but rather to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821467
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Brain drain, R&D-cost differentials and the innovation gap
Mariani, Fabio - HAL - 2008
This paper aims at explaining why countries with comparable levels of education still experience notable differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738476