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Does female empowerment promote economic development?

Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle - 2011

Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to their husbands) benefits children. Does this observation imply that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? We develop a series of noncooperative family bargaining models to understand what kind of...

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Where has all the money gone? Foreign aid and the quest for growth

Chatterjee, Santanu; Giuliano, Paola; Kaya, Ilker - 2007

This paper examines fungibility as a possible explanation for the missing link between foreign aid and economic growth. The composition of aid plays a crucial role in determining the composition of government spending and, consequently, the magnitude of fungibility and its impact on growth....

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Contests, NGOs and decentralizing aid

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2005

International donors usually have particular goals they want to achieve with their foreign aid, for example, poverty alleviation. In the international aid story lobbying by potential recipient groups attempting to capture the donor's support play a potentially important role for nongovernmental...

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Good governance and good aid allocation

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2008

We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The structure of the competition is important to the donor in terms of achieving good governance, and to the...

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Elite capture, political voice and exclusion from aid: an experimental study

D'Exelle, Ben; Riedl, Arno - 2008

community-based development schemes with heterogeneous groups. Not only information on the distribution of aid resources through …

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Allocation of labour in urban West Africa: implication for development policies

Dimova, Ralitza; Nordman, Christophe J.; Roubaud, François - 2008

With the use of comparable data from seven West African capitals, we attempt to assess the rationale behind development …

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The impact of aid on growth revisited: do donor motives matter?

Kilby, Christopher; Dreher, Axel - 2009

The typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter and then testing the assumption empirically.

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The costs of favoritism: is politically-driven aid less effective?

Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2010

As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that...

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Charitable giving for overseas development: UK trends over a quarter century

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Backus, Peter G.; Micklewright, John - 2008

Charitable giving for overseas development and emergency relief is important in the UK, being about a quarter of the … size of government development aid. There has been a strong growth over time, reflecting the activities of development … causes such as cancer relief or animal welfare? What, if any, is the relation with Official Development Assistance? …

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Unofficial development assistance: A dynamic model of charities' donation income

Arulampalam, Wiji; Backus, Peter G.; Micklewright, John - 2011

small. We extend the literature in several ways. First, we focus on overseas development charities allowing us to give more … development funding. …

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