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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"aid effectiveness"”.
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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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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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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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Evaluation of Hearing Aid Effectiveness Using Hearing Tests and Analysis of Prognostic Factors
현재 난청 환자의 수는 점점 늘어나고 있으며 2008년 국내 보고에 따르면 전체 인구 중 10%에서 난청을 호소하고 이 중 1%인 50만에서 보청기를 사용하고 있는 추세이다. 보청기 처방 후 보청기 효과에 대한 평가는 학자마다 다르고 그 기준에 따라 다양한 결과가 나타날 수 있다. 그 중 환자의 만족도를 확인하는 설문지를 이용한 주관적인 방법이 많이 사용되고 있으나 객관적 평가방법은 부족한 실정이다. 그래서 우리가 쉽게 접할 수 있는 객관적 자료인 보청기교정 기능이득， 보청기교정 어음분별력 검사를 이용하여 보청기 착용한 환자에게 …
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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 Macroeconomic Implications of International Capital Flow and Fiscal Uncertainty
… The second chapter advances the study of foreign aid fungibility by showing how subtle characteristics of household behavior interact with fungible aid and institutional factors to impact aid effectiveness. Specifically, I build a simple dynamic optimizing model and show that the way consumers …
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Donor funding and crowding out of public spending: Evidence from low and middle-income countries
… are in decline, raising questions about the effectiveness of agricultural aid. To understand why these trends are occurring, we examined factors that affect the share of government spending on agriculture. Using a sample of 66 low- and middle-income countries from 1996-2010 we use dynamic …
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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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Peacebuilding Evaluations within International Organisations. Investigation of their relevance, roles and effects
… proven harmful in the past. In the debates on aid effectiveness, evaluations have been advocated as being an effective instrument to better understand the results of development and peacebuilding projects and thereby ultimately to improve the practice. However, despite a long tradition of …
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The political economy of innovative development financing : a case study of donor funded risk capital financing in South Africa
… thesis sets out to evaluate whether innovative aid modalities have the ability provide more value for money than traditional aid modalities, and if so where? The aim of the research is to contribute to the literature on aid effectiveness and collective action which to date has largely ignored …
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Feminist Foreign Policy and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: A Critical Analysis of Canada's Engagement in Zambia
… enshrined in the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, donors often prioritize funding global health issues that resonate with their domestic, political, and foreign policy agendas, which do not always align with the priorities of domestic actors in recipient countries. Recent calls …
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Three essays in applied econometrics
… Chapter 3 re-investigates the role of foreign aid in developing countries, emphasising the diminishing returns, and Chapter 4 offers evidence on the interest rate threshold effect on housing prices in 17 advanced economies from 1870 to 2013. Chapter 2 investigates the impact of bank credit on …
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An Empirical Analysis of Foreign Aid Heterogeneity According to Donors for Pakistan
… The factors associated in the provision of aid commitments and disbursements, and the effect of bilateral assistance on the production efficiency of Pakistan. Chapter 1 uses an aid disaggregation approach to examine the impact of different types of bilateral donors on the fiscal sector of …
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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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The Impact of Aid on Human Development Indices in Sub-Saharan Africa
… the results of the analysis show that health aid is the most effective form of aid, significantly reducing the incidence of HIV, the infant mortality rate and the maternal mortality rate, as well as leading to improved life expectancy. Education aid has a significant effect on the progression …
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Forecasting the success of environmental and sustainability activities in international development using language models
International aid and cooperation improve the lives of the poorest in developing countries and help safeguard the environment and promote sustainability. However, international aid activities sometimes fail to achieve their objectives. Few attempts have been made in the literature to create models …
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Preventing smoking among 9-10 year old primary school children: evaluation of SmokeFree Sports
… were made to ensure its acceptability and aid effectiveness for a larger SFS pilot study. This formative study was therefore integral to the development of SFS pilot intervention which included compulsory and optional components delivered by multiple implementers, including SFS coaches and …
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Water development programs in India
… cooperation. This dissertation compares the effectiveness of initiatives by new and conventional donors with regard to the provision of public goods and services to the poor in the water and sanitation sector in India. India is an emerging country but it is experiencing high poverty rates and …