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Geopolitics, Aid, and Growth : The Impact of UN Security Council Membership on the Effectiveness of Aid

Dreher, Axel; Eichenauer, Vera; Gehring, Kai - 2016

The paper investigates the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Specifically, the paper tests whether the effect of aid on economic growth is reduced by the share of years a country served on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in the period the...

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Does Aid Help Improve Economic Institutions?

Coviello, Decio; Islam, Roumeen - 2012

pooled annual regressions for a large panel of countries and by pure cross-section regressions. The authors explicitly allow …

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Building or Bypassing Recipient Country Systems : Are Donors Defying the Paris Declaration?

Knack, Stephen F. - 2013

The 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness sets targets for increased use by donors of recipient country systems for managing aid. It also calls for donors to be more responsive to the quality of recipient country systems: the optimal level of their use, in terms of maximizing the...

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Correlates of Success in World Bank Development Policy Lending

Geli, Patricia; Moll, Peter G.; Saavedra, Pablo - 2015

This paper examines the correlates of success of development policy lending operations of the World Bank between 2004 … the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group. Departing from the related literature, the paper focuses mostly on … Policy" department of the World Bank, also increase the chance of success. Conversely, a weaker set of supported reforms in …

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When Instability Increases the Effectiveness of Aid Projects

Guillaumont, Patrick; Laajaj, Rachid - 2012

The authors assess the effect of economic instability on the success of projects funded by the World Bank using the …

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The Effect of Aid on Growth : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment

Galiani, Sebastián; Knack, Stephen F.; Xu, Lixin Colin; … - 2014

The literature on aid and growth has not found a convincing instrumental variable to identify the causal effects of aid. This paper exploits an instrumental variable based on the fact that since 1987, eligibility for aid from the International Development Association (IDA) has been based partly...

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Goals for Development : History, Prospects, and Costs

Devarajan, Shantayanan; Miller, Margaret J.; Swanson, … - 2013

The Millennium Development Goals set quantitative targets for poverty reduction and improvements in health, education, gender equality, the environment, and other aspects of human welfare. At existing rates of progress many countries will fall short of these goals. However, if developing...

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Aid, Policies, and Growth : Revisiting the Evidence

Burnside, Craig; Dollar, David - 2013

The authors revisit the relationship between aid and growth using a new data set focusing on the 1990s. The evidence supports the view that the impact of aid depends on the quality of state institutions and policies. The authors use an overall measure of institutions and policies popular in the...

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Regulatory Cooperation, Aid for Trade and the General Agreement on Trade in Services

Hoekman, Bernard M.; Mattoo, Aaditya - 2012

World Trade Organization. A distinction is made between market access liberalization and the regulatory preconditions for … making national treatment the objective of World Trade Organization services negotiations, thereby clarifying the scope of … World Trade Organization commitments for regulators. Moreover, liberalization by smaller and poorer members of the World …

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Aid Dependence and the Quality of Governance : A Cross-Country Empirical Analysis

Knack, Stephen F. - 2000

Good governance -- in the form of institutions that establish predictable, impartial, and consistently enforced rules for investors -- is crucial for the sustained and rapid growth of per capita incomes in poor countries. Aid dependence can undermine institutional quality by weakening...

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