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Aid and environment in Mozambique
Tomo, Alda; Givá, Nícia - 2014
Mozambique benefits from environmental aid-related funds, but it is still unclear whether donor commitments render directly into projects that are copiously implemented for the purposes stated and what aid flows have actually been doing and are doing in the area of aid and environment in...
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Local agency, development assistance and the legacies of rebellion in Burundi and Rwanda
Curtis, Devon E. A. - 2014
Rwanda and Burundi have both emerged from civil wars over the past 20 years and foreign donors have provided … significant contributions to post-conflict reconstruction and development in the two countries. Yet although Rwanda and Burundi … different. The paper argues that the nature of the ruling parties in Rwanda and Burundi is key to understanding the countries …
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Connecting national ownership and local participation in aid recipient countries : the cases of Rwanda and Cambodia
Hasselskog, Malin; Ndizera, Vedaste; Öjendal, Joakim - 2023
countries. Rwanda and Cambodia display different patterns of national ownership and different ways of accommodating the ideal of …
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The changing dynamics of foreign aid and democracy in Mozambique
Manning, Carrie; Malbrough, Monica - 2012
This study explores the effects of foreign aid on democracy in Mozambique during the last decade. Aid for democracy built on historic relationships forged between donors and the government during the wartime humanitarian emergency. Foreign aid played an important role in Mozambique's transition...
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The saga and limits of public financial management : the Mozambican case
Cruz, António; Ferreira, Ines A.; Flentø, Johnny; … - 2021
At independence in 1975, the Frelimo government took over public administration from the colonial system and started to transform it. The public financial management (PFM) system was adapted to the central planning and management of the economy in line with nationalist and Marxist-Leninist...
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Foreign aid, resource rents and institution-building in Mozambique and Angola
Pérez Niño, Helena; Le Billon, Philippe - 2013
Sharing similar colonial and post-independence civil war experiences, Mozambique and Angola's development paths are often contrasted, with foreign aid-dependent Mozambique hailed a success compared to oil rentier Angola. This paper questions the so-called Mozambican miracle and contrasts it with...
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Exiting the fragility trap : rethinking our approach to the world's most fragile states
Carment, David; Samy, Yiagadeesen - 2017
Those fragile states whose stagnation is so tenacious despite generous aid programs, and substantial and costly interventions, are stuck in a 'fragility trap.' Caught in a low-level equilibrium, trapped states appear to be in a perpetual political and economic limbo that can last for years and...
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Aid and development in Taiwan, South Korea, and South Vietnam
Gray, Kevin J. - 2013
The aim of this paper is to explain the divergent developmental outcomes between South Korea, Taiwan, and South Vietnam …, the ultimate failure to establish strong institutions in South Vietnam calls for a closer analysis of how differing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009790673
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Aid and social cohesion
Danquah, Michael; Ouattara, Bazoumana - 2021
A plethora of work has been done on the effectiveness of foreign aid. However, virtually none of the previous studies has investigated the impact of aid on social cohesion. Yet, in order to promote the achievement of the targets in SDG 16, donors and global partners of developing countries have...
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European aid to the MENA region after the Arab uprisings : a window of opportunity missed
Bodenstein, Thilo; Furness, Mark - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2023
European official development assistance to Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries increased sharply after 2011, ostensibly in support of the social, economic, and above all political changes demanded by the Arab uprisings. The subsequent turn to development policies driven by...
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