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What Does FDI Inflow Mean For Emerging African Economies? Measuring the Regional Effects of FDI in Africa.

George, Emmanuel; Ojeaga, Paul; Adekola, Adetunji; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

Can foreign direct investment (FDI) promote growth in Africa? What does the inflow of investment hold for African … emerging economies? Are the determinants of FDI different for different regional blocs in Africa? This study reviews the … implication of FDI for different regional blocs in Africa. FDI was found to have a significant effect on growth in North Africa …

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Globalization and Environment: Can Pollution Haven Hypothesis alone explain the impact of Globalization on Environment?

Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The economic literature on trade and environment seeks empirically test hypotheses about how trade affects the environment that is crucial for resolving current policy debates. Applying panel data technique we examine the impacts of globalization on pollution level, pollution intensity and...

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Does international trade improve environmental efficiency? An application of a super slacks-based measurement of efficiency

Honma, Satoshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This study analyzes environmental efficiency, and its determinants, for 98 countries in terms of four typical air pollutants—SO2, NOx, particulate matter 10 micrometers or less in diameter (PM10), and CO2—for the period 1970–2008. For this purpose, I propose a super slacks-based measure...

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Globalization and Environment: Can Pollution Haven Hypothesis alone explain the impact of Globalization on Environment?

Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The economic literature on trade and environment seeks empirically test hypotheses about how trade affects the environment. It is important to resolve current policy debates. Applying panel data technique we examine the impacts of globalization on pollution level, pollution intensity and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113147

Projektvurdering i u-lande

Tarp, Finn - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992

Quantitative project analysis drifted out of focus in academia during the 1980’s. Nevertheless, discrete projects remain the bulk of international development assistance. The present state of affairs is outlined: the application of basic principles is examined in case-context; and serious...

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Systematic Reviews: Questions, Methods and Usage

Hansen, Henrik; Trifkovic, Neda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

While their application in the context of development aid is quite new, systematic reviews have been used and debated in other fields for various decades. Although evidence gathering and synthesis in the context of development aid inarguably faces challenges distinct from other fields, it is...

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When business meets aid: analysing public-private partnerships for international development (Development Policy Centre Discussion Paper 28)

Callan, Margaret; Davies, Robin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

International development agencies are increasingly looking to business as a partner in achieving development outcomes. Engaging business in development has become a central plank of many countries’ aid policies. However, the potential of public-private partnerships for development is still...

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Why inferential statistics are inappropriate for development studies and how the same data can be better used

Ballinger, Clint - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The purpose of this paper is twofold: 1) to highlight the widely ignored but fundamental problem of ‘superpopulations’ for the use of inferential statistics in development studies. We do not to dwell on this problem however as it has been sufficiently discussed in older papers by...

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Assessing the Millennium Challenge Corporation as a Model for Foreign Assistance Reform

Prud'homme, Dan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This study assesses the effectiveness of different administrative models of US foreign assistance, with a unique focus on one that hypothetically channels more DFA-administered funds through the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). The study finds several limitations with this model, and so...

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Професор Георги Данаилов – предвестник на институционализма в България

Sedlarski, Teodor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This article gives an overview of the life and work of Bulgarian economist Georgi Danailov in the beginning of the 20th century. Studied consequently in Moscow, Berlin, Munich and Vienna under such influential scholars of his time as Chuprov, Yanzhulov, Schmoller, Sombart and Brentano, Danailov...

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