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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Recipient countries"”.
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Does U.S. food aid have disincentive effects on local food production?
… and avert humanitarian crises in developing countries. Although multiple studies on U.S. food aid have been carried out in the past few decades, the answer to the question— what is the impact of food aid on agricultural production— remains unclear. Many empirical studies focus on the …
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Essays on foreign aid volatility
… 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 this dissertation project, I instead focus on a source of inefficiency …
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The value of human rights on the open market: Liberal economic policies and the achievement of personal integrity rights.
… is likely to provoke protests from people in recipient countries, which often leads to increased repression by the state. To the extent that the IMF chooses to place importance on human rights, future attention should be paid to the practices of recipient countries. Overall, this dissertation …
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The Effects of Foreign Aid on Government Policies: Theoretical and Empirical Analyses
… model to examine if foreign aid discourages the recipient countries from pursuing trade liberalization. In the model, foreign aid is given to the recipient in period two and its amount is negatively related to the period-one real income. The recipient optimally chooses a tariff on imports. It can …
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Three essays on institutional change
… institutional change using a panel of aid recipient countries and multiple measures of institutions. In essay two, I examine how globalization affects informal institutions, measured by the level of culture in a country. The final essay explores if there are spatial spillovers from …
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The Impact of Foreign Aid on Internal Stability: A Case Study of Costa Rica and Venezuela
… foreign aid and the internal stability of recipient countries. Foreign aid programs have been an important tool through which countries can receive support in development efforts. Through extensive case study and process tracing analysis of twelve foreign aid projects in Venezuela and Costa …
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Feminist Foreign Policy and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: A Critical Analysis of Canada's Engagement in Zambia
… align with the priorities of domestic actors in recipient countries. Recent calls for the decolonization of global health have highlighted the unequal power relations and patterns of coloniality inherent in aid relationships. In Canada, research has shown how, domestic, economic, and foreign …
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The Impact of Development Aid on Human Development
… between development aid and human development in recipient countries. The primary function of this research is to determine which types of aid are most effective in improving human development. To accomplish this goal, I use a fixed effects regression analysis to examine the following aid types in …
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Governance and aid allocation in the International Development Association (IDA) : revisiting assessing aid in the twenty-first century
… for the development of the world's poorest countries consistently prioritizes good governance. A new dataset from the first decade of the twenty-first century, 2003-12, is used in three econometric estimation models to determine whether the quality of governance in recipient countries has …
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Impact of structural adjustment policies on health in developing countries
… had a detrimental impact on health in developing countries is baseless. Furthermore, it shows that structural adjustment failed to have positive impact on the health status or its proximal determinants. The study asserts that the previous two decades of economic and structural reforms fell short …
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Foreign aid in Africa : an analysis of its costs and benefits
… assumption that foreign aid has to benefit recipient countries, by, among other things, stimulating growth, reducing poverty and improving governance. While Africa has received massive inflows of aid since the 1960s, the Continent is still saddled with a number of challenges. These include, …
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The Principles and Reality of Bilateral Aid
… purpose of improving conditions for people in recipient countries.
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Monetary Policy Spillovers – The Impact of Advanced Central Banks’ Decisions on Emerging Financial Markets
… to government bond markets of emerging countries, influenced by the aggressive monetary easing of the major central banks. The research aims to address the puzzling question of the extent to which large central banks impact emerging financial markets. It outlines a research agenda to …
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Unraveling red tape: foreign aid allocation and the domestic bureaucracy
… Bueno de Mesquita have suggested that donor countries view foreign aid as a strategic tool in their economic arsenal. In contrast, however, donor countries actually describe their foreign aid as purely altruistic, as a way to alleviate poverty in the countries that receive aid. I argue this …
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New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad) : a hostage to conditionality?
… power, and thus interferes with governance in•• recipient countries, pre-empting self-determination, local initiative, and self-reliance. This discourse is thus located within the tradition of practical, politically engaged scholarship. Several relevant sub-issues are generated in the paper's …
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Can foreign donors build social capital? : civil society assistance and civic participation sub-Saharan Africa
… strategies to promote democracy in developing countries. One of the strategies is to support civil society organisations to foster vibrant civil society that can hold government responsive and accountable. Sub-Saharan Africa is no exception, in that all sub-Saharan countries except for the …
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Donors versus dictators : the impact of multilateral aid conditionality on democratization : Kenya and Malawi in comparative context
… centers on two in-depth case studies of countries where all major donors froze aid on a multilateral basis in order to pressure authoritarian regimes to legalize opposition parties and hold democratic elections. Through careful historical process-tracing, hypotheses drawn from both sides …
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Asymmetric network ties to elite American universities create differential access to venture capital in Africa
… flowing into Africa concentrated in a handful of countries? I reject the popular notion that market size is the primary reason why VC investments only end up in a few countries. Because ties with elite universities are the primary way in which African startup founders build social capital with …
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The impact of foreign aid on the South African economy (1980-2008
… 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 improving the socio economic conditions of the poor in the …
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Three Essays in Applied Economics
… that while political institutions and events in recipient countries greatly influence US aid allocations, the ideological orientation of US administrations can explain part of the divergent patters of aid towards Latin America. Finally, the third essay studies two possible mechanisms that affect …
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