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Does aid support democracy? : a systematic review of the literature

Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; … - 2021

literature on aid and democracy. It asks: Does aid-especially democracy aid-have positive impact on democracy? How? What factors … most influence its impact? In so doing, it considers studies that explicitly focus on 'democracy aid' as an aggregate … category, its subcomponents (e.g. aid to elections), and 'developmental aid'. Overall, the evidence suggests that i) democracy …

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How do human rights violations affect poverty and income distribution?

Apergēs, Nikolaos; Cooray, Arusha - 2019

The goal of this paper is to examine the impact of human rights on income distribution and poverty by exploring how both aid and trade can influence poverty and income distribution through human rights. The analysis employs data for 125 countries and uses a number of panel data methods. The...

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The corruption-growth relationship : do political institutions matter?

Saha, Shrabani; Sen, Kunal - 2019

Corruption is widely believed to negatively affect economic growth. However, many East and Southeast Asia countries either achieved or currently are achieving impressively rapid economic growth despite widespread corruption - the 'East Asian Paradox'. Is this negative relationship equally likely...

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Foreign aid for capacity-building to address climate change : insights and applications

Victor, David G. - 2013

The paper examines the role of foreign aid in building capacity to address climate change. While the experience with this topic is relatively recent and not yet extensive, analogous questions have arisen in many other areas of foreign aid. It is likely that climate change aid programmes work...

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Do countries use foreign aid to buy geopolitical influence? : evidence from donor campaigns for temporary UN Security Council seats

Reinsberg, Bernhard - 2019

In recent years, donor countries have increasingly used different aid allocation channels to boost aid effectiveness. One delivery channel that has grown tremendously is "multi-bi aid" - contributions to multilateral organizations earmarked for specific development purposes. This article...

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Effects of foreign aid on income through international trade

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2019

This paper presents a review of recent studies that estimate the trade effects of foreign aid. It also provides new results obtained using panel data techniques to estimate the direct effects of aid on international trade, accounting for countries' participation in free trade agreements, and the...

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Too many cooks in the kitchen? : the division of financing in World Bank projects and project performance

Winters, Matthew S. - 2019

The total funding envelope for World Bank projects is often divided among various state and non-state actors, each of which can have competing ideas about or interests in the project. How does the division of financing relate to overall project effectiveness? I argue that too many funding...

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Foreign aid and climate change policy : what can('t) the data tell us?

Kono, Daniel Y.; Montinola, Gabriella R. - 2019

Climate-related foreign aid is on the rise, with signatories to the Paris Climate agreement pledging US$100 billion annually to promote mitigation and adaptation in recipient countries. While this seems like a welcome development, we have little evidence that climate aid actually encourages...

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A proposal for a new universal development commitment

Glennie, Jonathan; Gulrajani, Nilima; Sumner, Andrew; … - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2019

size and use of contributions, and the evolution in global governance and democracy that a new deal would entail. We …

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Multilateral development aid : assessing the major replenishments of 2016

Manning, Richard - 2017

This survey of the 2016 replenishments of three multilateral development bank soft funds and of the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria shows that a significant re-set of the multilateral development finance system is taking place, with grant funding from traditional donors generally in decline...

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