Similar Search Results

Does Aid for Education Educate Children? Evidence from Panel Data

Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Department of Management, … - 2006

This paper empirically analyzes the impact of aid on education for about 100 countries over the period 1970-2005. We … of the link between government expenditure and education, (iii) the quality of institutions in the recipient country, and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005731475

Aid and Universal Primary Education

d’Aiglepierre, Rohen; Wagner, Laurent - In: Economics of Education Review 37 (2013) C, pp. 95-112

Universal Primary Education is one of the main objectives of development aid. However, very little empirical evidence … recent disaggregated reliable data available is used to study the relationship between aid for education and educational … indicate that aid for primary education has a strong positive effect on primary school enrolment, and gender equality. A …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010729876

Aid, Infrastructure, and FDI: Assessing the Transmission Channel with a New Index of Infrastructure

Donaubauer, Julian; Meyer, Birgit; Nunnekamp, Peter - FIW - 2015

We raise the hypothesis that aid specifically targeted at economic infrastructure helps developing countries attract higher FDI inflows through improving their endowment with infrastructure in transportation, communication, energy and finance. By performing 3SLS estimations we explicitly account...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185019

Aid, Infrastructure, and FDI: Assessing the Transmission Channel with a New Index of Infrastructure

Donaubauer, Julian; Meyer, Birgit; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010889944

Are NGOs the Better Donors? A Case Study of Aid Allocation for Sweden

Dreher, Axel; Mölders, Florian; Nunnenkamp, Peter - KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Department of Management, … - 2007

This paper analyzes whether and to what extent non-governmental organizations (NGOs) outperform official donors by allocating aid in a way that renders effective poverty alleviation more likely. We employ Probit and Tobit models and make use of an exceptionally detailed database that allows an...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005731469

Assessing Budget Support with Statistical Impact Evaluation: a Methodological Proposal

Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem; Hoop, Kobus de - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

illustrate its feasibility with an example from the education sector in Zambia. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137375

Assessing Budget Support with Statistical Impact Evaluation: a Methodological Proposal

Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem; Hoop, Kobus de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

illustrate its feasibility with an example from the education sector in Zambia. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255836

Aid Effectiveness Reconsidered: Panel Data Evidence for the Education Sector

Michaelowa, Katharina - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004

Applying the general question of aid effectiveness to the sector of education, this paper reveals an overall positive … of education for all. Universal primary education requires increased efficiency of educational spending by donors and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957437

Geopolitics, Aid and Growth

Dreher, Axel; Eichenauer, Vera; Gehring, Kai - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Donor countries’ political motives might reduce the effectiveness of conditionality, channel aid to inferior projects, reduce the aid bureaucracy’s effort, and change the power structure in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083419

Donors’ Openness to Immigration and the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid

Minasyan, Anna; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015

We argue that donors could improve the effectiveness of foreign aid by pursuing complementary and coherent non-aid policies. In particular, we hypothesize that aid from donors that are open to immigration has stronger growth effects than aid from closed donors. We estimate the aid-growth nexus...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123767