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Decentralizing aid with interested parties

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2006

This paper analyzes the decentralization of decision-making in aid-giving in a theoretical rent-seeking framework. In this analysis the root donor establishes a necessary criterion for potential recipients: good governance. The potential recipients compete in hierarchal contests for funds. The...

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The hope for hysteresis in foreign aid

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2006

We argue that a purpose of foreign aid is to whet the appetite of the recipient in order to bring about a long term commitment to what the donor perceives as a need, but which the recipient may rank lower down on his list of undertakings, or may be sufficiently resource constrained as to be...

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Foreign Aid and Enlightened Leaders

Hodler, Roland; Raschky, Paul A. - 2010

To study whether foreign aid fuels personal, regional and ethnic favoritism, we use satellite data on nighttime light for any region in any aid-recipient country, and we determine for each year and each country the region in which the current political leader was born. Having a panel with 22,850...

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Macroeconomic determinants of exit from aid-dependence

Hailu, Degol; Shiferaw, Admasu - 2012

This paper analyses macroeconomic aspects of exit from aid-dependence. By 'exit from aid', we mean substantial and enduring decline over time in Official Development Assistance (ODA) as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The relevant macroeconomic variables are identified by systematically...

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Foreign aid, fertility and populations growth: Evidence from Africa

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2009

This article investigates the relationship between foreign aid and population growth in sub-Saharan Africa. The work considers population growth rate and a directly related to fertility demographic indicator - total fertility rate. Using a panel of 43 African countries over the last four decades...

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Growing into and out of Social Conflict

Harms, Philipp; Zink, Stefan - 2002

We present a model of growth and distributional conflict that implies a non-monotonic relationship between average …

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Reputation, social identity and social conflict

Smith, John - 2007

matched to play a reduced form bargaining game. We show that this struggle for resources drives a conflict through the … consequences. We show that rational players can contribute to the conflict by aggressively discriminating and that this behavior is … relates to the social conflict literature, which examines the relationship between macro level factors such as unemployment …

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Preparing for genocide: Community work in Rwanda

Bonnier, Evelina; Poulsen, Jonas; Rogall, Thorsten; … - 2015

How do political elites prepare the civilian population for participation in violent conflict? We empirically …

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War signals: A theory of trade, trust and conflict

Rohner, Dominic; Thoenig, Mathias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2011

We construct a dynamic theory of civil conflict hinging on inter-ethnic trust and trade. The model economy is … beliefs on the average propensity to trade of the other group. Since confict disrupts trade, the onset of a conflict signals … after each conflict episode. Third, accidental conflicts that do not reflect economic fundamentals can lead to a permanent …

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Seeds of distrust: Conflict in Uganda

Rohner, Dominic; Thoenig, Mathias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2011

We study the effect of civil conflict on social capital, focusing on the experience of Uganda during the last decade …

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