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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Official Development Assistance"”.
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A strategy for organizational adjustment--Japan's official development assistance
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1991.
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The contribution of official development assistance to poverty reduction in Zambia
Recent studies have shown that Official Development Assistance (ODA) is able to contribute to poverty reduction through the Public Expenditure Management (PEM) system. The International Financial Institutions (IFIs) have also been channelling ODA in the form of budget support under the Poverty …
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Evaluating the impact of bilateral and multilateral official development assistance on economic growth in Zambia
As a recipient of Official Development Assistance (ODA), the Republic of Zambia is considered one of the aid-dependent nations in Sub-Saharan Africa. Development assistance has been said to have had made absolutely no contribution to economic growth and development in the country on observation of …
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Interest group influence in the formulation of official development assistance policy: The Canadian foreign policy review of 1994.
… offered a unique opportunity to refocus Canada's Official Development Assistance program. A special joint parliamentary committee reviewing Canadian foreign policy held public hearings across Canada in 1994, to which interest groups made submissions. This study attempts to discover to what degree …
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Unveiling the layers of educational reform: A critical realist analysis of the ideation, development and enactment of the Philippine professional standards for teachers policy
… (PPST) policy introduced under the conditions of official development assistance. With the technical and financial support of the government of Australia, this policy introduces clear indicators of professional competence that challenge traditional views of teacher professionalism and redefine …
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A Ajuda Oficial pra o Desenvolvimento a partir de três perspectivas teóricas
Since the end of the World War II, development issues have become central to the international agenda. Each subsequent decade has set up scenarios with differing perspectives on development goals and strategies, but in all of them Official Development Assistance (ODA) has remained one of the main …
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Foreign Aid and Economic Growth in Tanzania: Empirical Analysis in the 1980 to 2015
… analyze the long run and short run dynamics of Official Development Assistance to the economic growth of Tanzania from 1980 to 2015. An empirical model is estimated using Autoregressive Distributed Lagged (ARDL) approach to co integration for the intention of evaluating of the direct impact of …
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The impact of remittances on poverty in Africa: A cross-country empirical analysis
… additional foreign currency inflows, exports and Official Development Assistance (ODA). Accounting for possible heteroscedasticity and endogeneity, the results consistently show that remittances significantly reduce poverty. Exports and ODA are found to have a statistically insignificant effect on …
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The Impact of Offcial Development Assistance on Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from Vietnam
… between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Official Development Assistance (ODA) has not been fully established, nor has its directionality, as evidenced the disagreement among economists. Using existing literature as starting point, I extend its base by examining key causal variables for …
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Education in Nigeria (and Africa) : impacts and challenges of multilateral funding
… with specific focus on Nigeria. Although total official development assistance to Africa was $55 billion in 2015, that represents only part of the $161 billion in total given to all low- and middle-income countries (IFC data, 2016). Thus, the outlook for Africa and Nigeria remains challenging. I …
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Towards European Integration: Do the European Union and Its Members Abide by the Same Principles?
… that respect human rights through their Official Development Assistance (ODA) program. Furthermore, I tried to analyze whether European integration occurs at the foreign policy level through aid allocation. Based on the literatures on political conditionality and on the relationship …
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The Impact of Aid on Human Development Indices in Sub-Saharan Africa
This study investigates the relationship between official development assistance (ODA) and human development indicators (HDIs) in 49 sub-Saharan African countries over the period of 1995 to 2017 using 3-stage least squares (3SLS). The four key sub-classes of HDIs considered for this research …
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A Comparative Analysis of Legal Frameworks for Investments in Africa by China and the European Union
… instruments of foreign direct investments, official development assistance and other official flows. The legal analysis focus on the demand on political conditions to access the financial assistance; under which conditions are the projects tendered; and which labor standards set the parties …
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FDI and ODA in SSA: Does it contribute to the SDGs?
… funding gap in financing its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). External finance flows are regarded as a key source of SDG financing. Therefore, can foreign flows in the form of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Official Development Assistance (ODA) assist SSA in achieving the SDG …
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The impact of foreign aid on the South African economy (1980-2008
… has been the subject of much debate among development specialists, researchers, aid donors as well as recipients in general. Two very strong views have emerged in the literature; proponents of aid posit that foreign aid contributes to higher welfare levels and economic growth while also …
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Caribbean-China Relations: Foreign Policy and Small State Economic Adjustment
… of trade preferences and the sharp decline in official development assistance.</p> <p>Despite the seemingly homogenous nature of these Caribbean states there is in fact significant foreign policy variation seen vis-à-vis engagement with China. Some Caribbean states have consistently recognized …
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Cooperative financial institutions (CFIs) as a source of development finance - a case study on Sub-Saharan Africa
… developing countries from attaining economic development. While traditional sources of financing such as Official Development Assistance (ODA), Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Remittances have done much to alleviate the problem, they have left what is termed the missing middle; a financing …
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Poverty Reduction in Burundi: A Case Study of the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid
<p>The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight international development goals that were officially established by the United Nations in 2000 following the adoption of the United Nations’ Millennium Declaration. The aim of these goals is to free humanity from extreme poverty, hunger, …
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Conducting a cost analysis to address issues of budget constraints on the implementation of the indoor residual spray program. an intervention to control and eliminate Malaria in two districts of Maputo Province, Mozambique
… This is due to recent restrictions of the Official Development Assistance (ODA), an external aid scheme and the main source of financing of the Mozambican government budget. Objective: The objective of this study was to estimate the cost of IRS operationalization activities in Matutuine and …
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