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Can Results-Based Payments Reduce Corruption?
Kenny, Charles - 2013
A common objection to results-based programs is that they are somehow more vulnerable to corruption. This paper … explains why results-based approaches to foreign aid may be less vulnerable to corruption than the traditional approaches which … monitor and track the purchase and delivery of inputs and activities.The paper begins by classifying different corruption …
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Foreign aid and subnational development: A grid cell analysis
Bitzer, Jürgen; Gören, Erkan - 2018
We examine the impact of geo-referenced World Bank development programs on subnational development using equally sized grid cells with a spatial resolution of 0.5 decimal degrees latitude x longitude as the unit of investigation. The proposed grid cell approach solves a number of endogeneity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011800375
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Going Beyond the Averages: Aid and Development
Quibria, M.G. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
One of the persistent, unresolved controversies of economic development is the effectiveness of development assistance —whether foreign aid contributes to economic development. This article argues that this controversy is largely an artifact of a methodology that focuses on the “averages”...
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Rethinking Health Sector Wide Approaches through the lens of Aid Effectiveness
McNee, Andrew - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012
Sector Wide Approaches (SWAps) are an approach to aid management that aim to support recipient government leadership. Health aid has grown rapidly in the past 20 years and in this time SWAps have become an important health aid delivery approach. However, the empirical evidence is that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010860342
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Heterogeneous effects of foreign aid on local economic development
Bitzer, Jürgen; Dannemann, Bernhard Christopher; … - 2024
We investigate the heterogeneity of the impact of World Bank foreign aid projects on local economic development across countries, sectors and time. Using a grid-cell dataset of geo-referenced aid data, satellite night-time light imagery, and climatic and socio-economic controls, we employ a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015166333
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Cash On Delivery Aid for Health: What Indicators Would Work Best- Working Paper 275
Savedoff, William D.; Martel, Katherine Douglas - 2011
The idea of applying a Cash on Delivery Aid (COD Aid) approach to the health sector has been raised many times, particularly in relation to addressing malaria, HIV/AIDS, maternal health, and water. After assessing the challenges of applying COD Aid in the health sector, this paper considers 10...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009649778
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Aid effectiveness, governance and public investment
Kasuga, Hidefumi; Morita, Yuichi - In: Economic Modelling 29 (2012) 2, pp. 514-521
In this paper, we develop a growth model in which aid finances infrastructure investment and pro-poor spending in order to analyze ways through which aid can be made more effective. We assume that the recipient countries are aid-dependent in the early phase of development and that they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010573323
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Putting Paris into practice: Foreign aid, national ownership, and donor alignment in Mali and Ghana
Brown, Stephen - 2016
This paper examines the application of the first two principles of the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, namely ownership and alignment, to the cases of Mali and Ghana. It argues that Western donors and recipient governments have adopted the Paris Principles mainly in form, rather...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653957
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Heterogeneous effects of foreign aid on local economic development
Bitzer, Jürgen; Dannemann, Bernhard Christopher; … - 2024 - This Version: December 2024
We investigate the heterogeneity of the impact of World Bank foreign aid projects on local economic development across countries, sectors and time. Using a grid-cell dataset of geo-referenced aid data, satellite night-time light imagery, and climatic and socio-economic controls, we employ a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015145530
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Putting Paris into practice : foreign aid, national ownership, and donor alignment in Mali and Ghana
Brown, Stephen - 2016
This paper examines the application of the first two principles of the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, namely ownership and alignment, to the cases of Mali and Ghana. It argues that Western donors and recipient governments have adopted the Paris Principles mainly in form, rather...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573201