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. Der Erkenntnis, dass Entwicklungshilfe nur dann gesamtwirtschaftliche Wachstumsprozesse begünstigt und Armutsprobleme …
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In a report presented at the UN Conference on Financing for Development in March 2002, the World Bank claims that the … policies. However, the World Bank's success story rests on an extremely weak foundation: First, the institution's contribution … the distribution of World Bank financing. Second, the picture portrayed in the report takes a bad turn if only two …
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Arbeit -- und nicht in erster Linie Schulbesuch und Spiel -- prägt den Alltag vieler Millionen Kinder in Entwicklungsländern. Ungeachtet ihrer vielfältigen Formen und komplexen Ursachen wird Kinderarbeit in der öffentlichen Diskussion und in der Politikpraxis der OECD-Länder meist als...
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This paper explores the impact of foreign aid on economic growth using variation in aid inflows from natural disasters. Because using a country's own disaster exposure as an instrument for aid inflows violates exogeneity assumptions, I instead use the disaster exposure of a country's "aid...
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In 2016, the World Bank formally implemented a massive reform of the guidance it applies to procurements conducted … under World Bank-financed projects. Because of the prominent role that the World Bank plays in shaping procurement policy …, the Bank’s procurement reforms have had a profound impact on procurement in many countries around the world. This piece, a …
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The paper investigates the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Specifically, the paper tests whether the effect of aid on economic growth is reduced by the share of years a country served on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in the period the...
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We use an excludable instrument to test the effect of bilateral foreign aid on economic growth in a sample of 96 recipient countries over the 1974-2009 period. We interact donor government fractionalization with a recipient country's probability of receiving aid. The results show that...
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