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obtaining development finance. Reflecting the growing political salience of global environmental threats, donors are providing … increasing levels of environmental aid, and especially climate finance. However, at the same time, donors are increasingly … failing to co-ordinate their allocation of climate finance (and other environmental aid) within multilateral institutions. At …
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The use of challenge funds to promote economic and social development continues to grow, but has been the subject of relatively little research. This paper develops a definition of what challenge funds are and how they differ from other development funding mechanisms, taking into account their...
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China’s development finance is sizable but reliable information is scarce. To address critical information gaps, we … introduce a new open source methodology for collecting project-level development finance information and create a database of … Chinese official finance to Africa from 2000-2011. Our initial data collection efforts found that China’s official finance …
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This paper examines China and Africa co-operation from the angle of structural transformation as a major driver of growth and job creation. Being a bit ahead in the structural transformation process, China can provide ideas, tacit knowledge, opportunities as well as development finances in...
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The paper assesses the multilateral development financing system in the light of the replenishments of three key funds in 2013. It argues that the replenishments showed strong continuing support for each institution, but identifies challenges emerging from the reliance on traditional donors and...
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of development finance are presented. …
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In 2022, governments around the world committed USD 211 bn. to official development assistance. Despite these high contributions, systematic assessments of the determinants of success - or failure - of development aid projects remain limited, particularly for bilateral development aid. This...
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, supply, and finance shocks. Yet, a range of firm responses to the downturn seem to be out of reach. Fewer small and medium … majority of smaller firms do not turn to banks for loans; they need grants. Although development finance is not enough to fill … the financing gap, development finance institutions are relevant - in investment mobilization, demonstration, and know …
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China and India increasingly provide aid and credit to developing countries. This paper explores whether India uses these financial instruments to compete for geopolitical and commercial influence with China (and vice versa). To do so, we build a new geocoded dataset of Indian...
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China and India increasingly provide aid and credit to developing countries. This paper explores whether India uses these financial instruments to compete for geopolitical and commercial in uence with China (and vice versa). To do so, we build a new geocoded dataset of Indian government-financed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012546236