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Real Exchange Rate Dynamics in Macedonia: Old Wisdoms and New Insights
Bogoev, Jane; Bojceva Terzijan, Sultanija; Égert, Balázs - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-18, pp. 1-19
The ambition of this paper is to analyse real exchange rate dynamics in Macedonia relying on a highly disaggregated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295315
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Macedonia’s Accession to the EU and the Labor Market: What Can Be Learned from the New Member States?
Lehmann, Hartmut - 2010
Macedonia should be shaped to further the integration of the acceding economy into the European economic space. The successes … this reform process. Macedonia is the country in Europe with one of the highest unemployment rates and a very large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331427
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Migration and remittances in Macedonia: A review
Dietz, Barabara - 2010
migration policy challenges Macedonia will be likely to face after its entry into the EU. Concerning recent migration movements …This paper explores migration movements and remittances patterns in Macedonia since independence and studies the …, considerable outflows from Macedonia are found as well as indications for a serious brain drain. Remittances to Macedonia - which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281890
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The cooperation of Fyrom's local authority agencies with local authorities in the European Union and the Balkans
Magoulios, Giorgos - In: International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied … 1 (2008) 2, pp. 67-89
institutions, means and experiences of cooperation among local authorities agencies of the FYR of Macedonia and those of Balkan and … European countries. Based on the results of a primary research survey undertaken in the FYR of Macedonia, this paper examines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289407
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New Markets for Local Experts in Africa?
Kohnert, Dirk - In: More Responsibilities to South Consultants in …, (pp. 63-74). 1995
In the past decades the involvement of local experts in the planning and evaluation of development programs has steadily increased. Ownership of development planning is propagated as major aim of bilateral and international development co-operation. Yet, the quality and performance of many local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011331378
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The political economy of China's aid policy in Africa
Pehnelt, Gernot - 2007
In recent years, China has become a major power on the African continent, not only with respect to trade and investment, but also as a donor of development aid. Although there is no accurate measure of the exact size of China's aid program, since China rather underestimates the volume in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263808
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Sectoral aid priorities: Are donors really doing their best to achieve the millennium development goals?
Thiele, Rainer; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Dreher, Axel - 2006
We analyze the aid portfolio of various bilateral and multilateral donors, testing whether they have prioritised aid in line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In doing so, we combine sectorally disaggregated aid data with indicators reflecting the situation of recipient countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272941
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Measuring international inequality aversion
Tol, Richard S. J. - 2008
I measure the rate of aversion to inequality in consumption as expressed in the development aid given by rich countries to poor ones between 1965 and 2005. Over time, OECD countries have become less concerned about international inequity. Even for a fairly leaky bucket, the consumption rate of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277558
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Halving poverty by doubling aid: how well founded is the optimism of the World Bank?
Langhammer, Rolf J. - 2002
The article criticizes the World Bank as overy optimistic concerning its ability to raise the effectiveness of aid by concentrating aid on countries with "good" policies. It is shown that aid flows to the main recipient regions yielded the highest correlation to growth when their magnitudes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277721
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Long-run trends and recent developments in official assistance from donor countries
White, Howard - 2002
accounted for a growing share of total aid, in part as a result of the expansion of EU aid, but non-EU donors have contributed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279170