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The Macroeconomic Treatment of Aid Increases in IMF-Supported Programs

Berndt, Markus - 2008

This note was produced as background to the IEO evaluation of the IMF and Aid to Sub-Saharan Africa. It sets out the technical analysis underpinning the evaluation's estimate for spending and absorption ratios and elaborates further on its scope, rationale and limitations. It also presents more...

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Hidden Foreign Aid

Pozen, David - 2008

Whether the U.S. government should be allowed to claim credit for the private philanthropy of its citizens is a hot topic in today's foreign aid debate. Overlooked in this debate, however, is a form of aid that straddles the traditional public/private divide: charitable tax expenditures. Through...

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Why Foreign Aid Fails : The Dual Big Push and Aid Effectiveness

Ge, Jing; ruiming, liu - 2022

This study develops a model of allocation of local elites in which low-efficiency production exerts a negative effect on high-efficiency production by squeezing resources to explain why aid has markedly different effects in different countries. There are multiple equilibria in the model....

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Effective Foreign Aid : Evidence from Gavi’s Vaccine Program

Shastry, Gauri Kartini; Tortorice, Daniel L. - 2022

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance has provided over US$16 billion in funding for vaccination expansion in low-income countries since its founding in 1999. We exploit differential timing in Gavi support across countries and vaccines to estimate the effects of this large-scale public health initiative....

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Can Foreign Aid Create an Incentive for Good Governance? Evidence from the Millennium Challenge Corporation

Johnson, Doug; Zajonc, Tristan - 2006

The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) awards aid to countries that perform well on a set of independently compiled governance indicators. Proponents of this new form of aid argue that 1) aid will be more effective when given to well-governed countries and 2) countries will respond to such...

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Correlates of Success in World Bank Development Policy Lending

Moll, Peter G. - 2017

This paper examines the correlates of success of development policy lending operations of the World Bank between 2004 … the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group. Departing from the related literature, the paper focuses mostly on … Policy" department of the World Bank, also increase the chance of success. Conversely, a weaker set of supported reforms in …

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The Effect of Aid on Growth : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment

Galiani, Sebastián - 2017

The literature on aid and growth has not found a convincing instrumental variable to identify the causal effects of aid. This paper exploits an instrumental variable based on the fact that since 1987, eligibility for aid from the International Development Association (IDA) has been based partly...

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How Does Foreign Aid Impact Australian Exports in the Long-Run?

Otor, Sabit Amum - 2017

exports to Asia as a case study. Dynamic panel econometric techniques and the Gravity Model of international trade are used to …

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What is the Role of Terroristic Acts on Subsidy and Donor Provisions to Microfinance?

Pylypiv, Mariya I. - 2015

We examine the relationship between terroristic activity and external support to the microfinance industry from private and public donors in the form of subsidies and donations, as well as the relationship between subsidies and donations in the context of terrorism. Using information from 94...

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New Perspectives on Aid Effectiveness

Tarp, Finn - 2014

Foreign aid has undergone many fundamental shifts since the middle of the last century. During the 1960s and 1970s, the international development community added a multilateral agenda of development goals, institutions, and procedures to traditional bilateralism. Thinking about development...

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