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Economic Development and the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid : A Historical Perspective
Edwards, Sebastian - 2014
In this paper I discuss the effectiveness of foreign aid from a historical perspective. I show that foreign aid is a relatively new concept in economics, and I emphasize the role of exchange rate policies in the foreign aid controversies of the 1970s through 1990s. I show that in the early 1980s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043991
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Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?
Doepke, Matthias - 2014
children. Does this imply that targeting transfers to women promotes economic development? Not necessarily. We consider a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059095
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Can the West Save Africa?
Easterly, William - 2021
In the new millennium, the Western aid effort towards Africa has surged due to writings by well-known economists, a celebrity mass advocacy campaign, and decisions by Western leaders to make Africa a major foreign policy priority. This survey contrasts the predominant "transformational" approach...
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Instruments of Development : Randomization in the Tropics, and the Search for the Elusive Keys to Economic Development
Deaton, Angus - 2010
economic development. There is skepticism about the ability of econometric analysis to resolve these issues, or of development … agencies to learn from their own experience. In response, there is movement in development economics towards the use of … statistical or epistemic superiority. I illustrate using prominent experiments in development. As with IV methods, RCT …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757925
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Trade Growth Under the African Growth and Opportunity Act
Frazer, Garth - 2010
This paper explores whether one of the most important U.S. policies towards Africa of the past few decades achieved its desired result. In 2000, the United States dropped trade restrictions on a broad list of products through the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). Since the Act was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759989
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What Works in Fighting Diarrheal Diseases in Developing Countries? A Critical Review
Zwane, Alix Peterson - 2010
The Millennium Development Goals call for reducing by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760296
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Politics and the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid
Boone, Peter D. - 2010
the poor as measured by improvements in human development indicators, but it does increase the size of government. I also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763717
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Coming Out in America : Aids, Politics, and Cultural Change
Fernández, Raquel - 2019
The last few decades witnessed a dramatic change in public opinion towards gay people. This paper studies the hypothesis that the AIDS epidemic was a shock that changed the incentive to “come out” and that the ensuing process of mobilization and endogenous political process led to cultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889498
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The Effect of Aid on Growth : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
Galiani, Sebastian - 2016
Development Association (IDA) has been based partly on whether or not a country is below a certain threshold of per capita income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994903
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Making Progress on Foreign Aid
Qian, Nancy - 2014
population well-being and facilitate economic and institutional development. The empirical evidence on its benefits is mixed and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048582