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Lessons for Japanese foreign aid from research on aid's impact
Addison, Tony; Tarp, Finn - 2015
Japan has an impressive history when it comes to aid, industrial policy, and infrastructure development, both as a country that saw meteoric development of its own, and as a country that has been one of the world's largest donors for decades. Looking towards an uncertain future in which...
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China's international development finance: Past, present, and future
Xu, Jiajun; Carey, Richard - 2015
China is emerging as perhaps the most globally significant development finance provider, going far beyond concessional … foreign aid. With China's initiatives to create and foster new multi-lateral finance institutions, and to work in terms of … approach to development finance abroad and explores what kinds of challenges and opportunities China will bring as it moves to …
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Environmental and climate finance in a new world: How past environmental aid allocation impacts future climate aid
Marcoux, Christopher; Parks, Bradley C.; Peratsakis, … - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333707
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China-Africa co-operation in structural transformation: Ideas, opportunities, and finances
Lin, Justin Yifu; Wang, Yan - 2014
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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Ground-truthing' Chinese development finance in Africa: Field evidence from South Africa and Uganda
Muchapondwa, Edwin; Nielson, Daniel; Parks, Bradley; … - 2014
recipient governments - about Chinese development finance activities in Africa that can be updated and improved through crowd … verify and update existing data with in-person interviews on Chinese development finance and site visits in Uganda and South …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343220
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The multilateral aid system: An assessment following the major replenishments of 2013
Manning, Richard - 2014
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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Understanding Chinese and Western development finance in Uganda, South Africa, and Zimbabwe
Muchapondwa, Edwin; Mukanjari, Samson - 2014
China's importance as a major donor outside the traditional Western donors has been increasing and this has helped to bridge the funding gaps in developing countries. At the same time, South-South financial assistance still comes with less conditionality making China's aid model different to...
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Aid and infrastructure financing: Emerging challenges with a focus on Africa
Addison, Tony; Anand, P. B. - 2012
The central argument of this study is that given the magnitude of the investment in infrastructure that is required, especially in Africa, the role of foreign aid in the future should be distinctly different. While aid will be required to continue to fill the 'savings gap' in some small...
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Financing sustainable agriculture under climate change with a specific focus on foreign aid
Huang, Jikun - 2013
developing countries achieve sustainable agriculture; substantial funds are needed to finance the wide range of measures for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319898
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Human capital inequality and electoral outcomes in South Africa
Bedasso, Biniam; Obikili, Nonso - 2016
This paper examines the nature and evolution of horizontal and vertical human-capital inequality in South Africa since the end of apartheid. Using census data from 1996, 2001, and 2011, we use different measures of years of schooling to examine the dynamics both across and within racial,...
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