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The aid triangle : developing countries, aid organizations, consultants
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning; and, (M. Arch. in Advanced Studies)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1980.
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Overseas Aid as a Diplomatic Tool: UK Aid in India
… resources to another in the form of overseas aid? Decades of public policy and a rich body of research provides answers to Morgenthau’s (1962) seminal question, ranging from poverty alleviation to neo-liberal market expansion to geopolitics. I argue that contemporary UK aid is positioned as a …
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UNPACKING HEALTH AID EFFECTIVENESS
… thesis provides an unpacked analysis of health aid effectiveness using Mozambique as a case-study. It comprises of three main papers of independent but related research. The first paper adds to the literature by employing a new model to study the impact of health aid on health outcomes. By …
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Remote hearing aid fitting
Hearing aid fitting is a costly process due to the cost of hearing aids, audiologists' hourly rates, and large travelling distances caused by regionally sparse audiologist populations. This dissertation is focused on the development of a system which aims at reducing the severity of this problem.
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Aid, infrastructure and growth
… Dollar (2000) introduced the interactive term aid*policy into growth equations. Most studies up until then had merely added aid as a variable on its own with GDP growth as the dependent variable in order to check aid effectiveness.
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ESSAYS ON FOREIGN AID EFFECTIVENESS: THE ROLE OF MONITORING PROCEDURES IN IMPROVING AID EFFECTIVENESS AND THE IMPACT OF AID-RECIPIENT GOVERNANCE ON AID ALLOCATION AND WELFARE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
… dissertation presents three essays on foreign aid effectiveness. Chapter 1 presents the role of monitoring procedures in improving the effectiveness of foreign aid. It analyzes how monitoring procedures influence the government’s effort and improve the effectiveness of foreign aid. The chapter …
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Quality of Life Differences Between First-Year Undergraduate Financial Aid and Non-Aid Recipients
The literature available on financial aid addresses how aid promotes access and equal educational opportunity by enabling students to matriculate into college. The literature also discusses how financial aid impacts students' ability to persist to degree completion. However, there seems to be …
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Public Aid for Sectarian Education
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T21:24:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6801733.pdf: 6080626 bytes, checksum: 4aca32bef56a05a726068d6ea92f9d42 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1967
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Essays on foreign aid volatility
Existing explanations for why foreign aid can fail to achieve its objectives tend to highlight issues that have roots in recipient countries, and scholars have documented at length the perverse mechanisms through which recipient governments can misappropriate and misuse development assistance. In …
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Mockingbird : an interactive composer's aid
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1981.
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Student financial aid : three essays
… essays covering aspects of student financial aid. The first and third chapters put emphasis on the use of preference estimation and centralized admission systems as a key ingredient to answer policy relevant questions. The second chapter deals with the labor market consequences of student …
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EXAMINING HOW TENNESSEE STATE MERIT AID INFLUENCES INSTITUTIONAL GRANT AID: A DIFFERENCE-IN-DIFFERENCES APPROACH
… design is employed to isolate how state merit aid funding may lead institutions to change their institutional grant aid. Principal agent and resource dependence theories together establish state and institutional context as well as inform potential institutional responses to the TELS program. …
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Aid-Foreign Direct Investment Linkages: A Case Study of Aid and Foreign Direct Investment in Uganda.
Whilst many hold to the orthodox view that aid can promote the take-off to long-term self-sustaining growth and development in recipient countries as Rosenstein-Rodan (1961), Chenery and Strout (1966) and others have hypothesised, it is far from being realised in SSA economies. This has provoked …
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Does Aid Really Help? The Nexus Between Development Aid and State-Society Resilience in Fragile Situations
<p>This study aims to determine how development aid impacts state-society resilience, and how such resilience impacts aid flows in fragile situations. It particularly examines if development aid builds state-society resilience in fragile situations listed in the harmonized list of World Bank, …
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Country programmable aid : differences, divergences and contradictions between donor aid strategies and beneficiary country developments plans
Aid has a significant impact on governance and public spending in sub-Saharan Africa. In Mozambique (amongst others) aid accounts for more public spending than domestic revenues do. Even in countries less dependent on aid, international donors influence policy making by investing in a technical …
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The impact of federal reductions in financial aid on the enrollment plans of past aid recipients
… affect the enrollment of continuing financial aid recipients. Previous literature in financial aid has documented the relationship between financial aid and decisions about college, particularly for minority and low income students applying for the first time to less selective colleges. The …
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AID Effectiveness in Post-Conflict Countries
… This dissertation examines the role of aid in countries recovering from conflict by investigating the determinants and the time scale of post-conflict aid and its impact on outcomes of economic recovery. In so doing, this dissertation aims to enhance understanding of the role of foreign …
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Interactive Video as a Teaching Aid
Interactive Video (IV), the combining of video and computers, became a technical reality in the early 1980s. The main aim of this study is to evaluate the potential for the use of Interactive Video techniques in the teaching of Technology based subjects.<br/><br/>The project began in 1983 at the …
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FOREIGN AID FOR TRADE POLICY REFORMS
… this dissertation is to investigate how foreign aid can be used as means to induce a recipient country to engage in trade policy reforms. For this purpose, we develop a two-good and two-country model where the donor commits to give foreign aid in the first period and disburses in the second …
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Disaster Relief and Psychological First Aid
… tool for those involved in disaster relief and aid work. A review of the literature, mental health disorders, basic information about disasters, common stress reactions, and Psychological First Aid are included. Although Psychological First Aid has not really been systematically studied, it …
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