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This paper considers an economic analysis of intergenerational transition of ethnic and social trait. We consider the level of social traits chosen by parents and its effect on their children's choice of ethnic and social traits when reaching adulthood. We develop a theory that suggests that...
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This paper considers an economic analysis of intergenerational transition of ethnic and social trait. We consider the level of social traits chosen by parents and its effect on their children's choice of ethnic and social traits when reaching adulthood. We develop a theory that suggests that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703206
Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort into having an effect. A department may come into conflict with other departments because of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011085396
Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort into having an effect. A department may come into conflict with other departments because of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011094074
receiving countries prefer that each country obtains the proportion of aid relative to its governance quality. If poverty … reduction is an independent goal as well, a poverty trap may be created. With good governance as a criterion, donors may work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005750245
We argue that a purpose of foreign aid is to whet the appetite of the recipient in order to bring about a long term commitment to what the donor perceives as a need, but which the recipient may rank lower down on his list of undertakings, or may be sufficiently resource constrained as to be...
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This paper analyzes the decentralization of decision-making in aid-giving in a theoretical rent-seeking framework. In …, fashionable aid procedures will lead to the development of a poverty trap. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005800369
receiving countries prefer that each country obtains the proportion of aid relative to its governance quality. If poverty … reduction is an independent goal as well, a poverty trap may be created. With good governance as a criterion, donors may work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566444
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generated by migration. Narrow self-interests may be present not only for interest groups but also for ruling politicians and … affect, via a lobbying process, the choice of public policy. We also consider how interest groups and lobbying activities …
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