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What are the socioeconomic effects of foreign aid in developing countries? How effective is aid in promoting social capital? The paper focuses on these questions from an empirical perspective and assesses the casual effect of foreign aid on trust in Uganda. Individuals living in counties that...
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Foreign aid has evolved considerably over the last five decades in response to a dramatically changing global political and economic context. This paper takes a retrospective look at this process and discusses whether aid has been effective in furthering economic growth and development. The...
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The aim of this essay is to consider how the World Bank can provide support to the legal and justice systems of Member … become magnified due to COVID-19. Furthermore, this essay will recommend strategies that may be adopted by the World Bank in …
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It is widely believed that the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has grossly fallen short of high expectations raised by the Bush administration in 2002. From the perspective of potential recipient countries, the crucial issue is whether the MCC increased the overall pool of aid resources...
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What happens to foreign aid when developing countries get richer?In this paper, I first show that, since the mid-1990s, many recipients of official development assistance have been experiencing sustained economic progress and that they are projected to do so. I proceed with presenting historical...
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contrasts the relative homogeneous and heterogeneous influences of time-series panel data allows regions in the developing world …
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term. We combine newly geocoded data on World Bank aid project allocation at the subnational level over the period 2008 …--2019 with exceptionally rich survey data from a sample of almost one million individuals across the entire developing world and … show that in the short term (after the announcement of a World Bank project and within two years after project disbursement …
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