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'Ground-truthing' Chinese development finance in Africa : field evidence from South Africa and Uganda
Muchapondwa, Edwin; Nielson, Daniel L.; 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/10010237264
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357971
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Financing the capital development of the economy : a Keynes-Schumpeter-Minsky synthesis
Mazzucato, Mariana; Wray, L. Randall - 2015
This paper discusses the role that finance plays in promoting the capital development of the economy, with particular … emphasis on the current situation of the United States and the United Kingdom. We define both "finance" and "capital … the United States. To a large degree, this was because finance, instead of financing the capital development of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010517057
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Financing the capital development of the economy : a Keynes-Schumpeter-Minsky synthesis
Mazzucato, Mariana; Wray, L. Randall - 2015
This paper discusses the role that finance plays in promoting the capital development of the economy, with particular … emphasis on the current situation of the United States and the United Kingdom. We define both "finance" and "capital … the United States. To a large degree, this was because finance, instead of financing the capital development of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010530034
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Following public finances : the mirage of MDBs countercyclicality
Avellán, Leopoldo; Galindo Andrade, Arturo José; … - 2020
important source of external finance for governments and hence play a key role in financing the execution of fiscal policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012238386
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December fever in public finance
Eichenauer, Vera - 2020
Public spending often increases at the end of fiscal years. This is undesirable because late spending tends to be inefficient. The causes for these spending spikes are however poorly understood. This paper offers a novel identification strategy that relies on the historic variation in countries'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152488
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On the concept of green growth and the role of policy and public finance
Sudo, Tomonori - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458070
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Observing unobservables : identifying information asymmetries with a consumer credit field experiment
Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - 2005
Information asymmetries are important in theory but difficult to identify in practice. We estimate the empirical importance of adverse selection and moral hazard in a consumer credit market using a new field experiment methodology. We randomized 58,000 direct mail offers issued by a major South...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011610980
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The distribution of resources in education in South Africa
Marais, M. A. - 1992
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000850893
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Measuring the 'success' of employment creation strategies in the Apartheid State
Booth, Douglas - 1988
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000745396