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Showing 1 to 20 of 164 for “"foreign aid"”.
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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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FOREIGN AID FOR TRADE POLICY REFORMS
… goal of 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 …
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Japanese Worldviews, Ideologies, and Foreign Aid Policy
… the ideational factors influencing Japanese foreign aid policy. It builds on previous research in political science on perception and foreign policy decision-making, Japanese political economy, economic and technological development, foreign aid, and in anthropology on perception, worldview, …
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Effective Utilization of Foreign Aid in Counterinsurgency Operations
… Power,” a mixture of both hard and soft power. Foreign aid and its distribution in COIN operations has sparked a major debate amongst scholars, soldiers and aid industry workers as to who should distribute foreign aid and what relationship the military and aid workers should have.I hypothesize …
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Foreign aid and economic growth in South Africa
Foreign aid inflows have grown significantly in the post-war period. Many studies have tried to assess the effectiveness of aid. The role of foreign aid in promoting economic growth has been the subject of much debate among development specialists, researchers, aid donors as well as recipients in …
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The nexus between soft power and US foreign aid
… What is the role of soft power in US bilateral foreign aid allocation? Drawing on insights from Joseph Nye's soft power concept, I examine the relationship between US bilateral development and military aid allocations and like-minded states from 1981 to 2011. Accordingly, US soft power attracts …
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Canada's foreign aid program : a policy analysis (1946-1980)
… and a half decades since Canada began giving aid to the underdeveloped countries. The concept was new but there was a strong obligation among Canadians to help the poor and less fortunate peoples in the Third World. During the post-war period, Canada's foreign aid programs were characterized …
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Essays on the economics of foreign aid in Niger
… thesis identifies the gaps in the literature on foreign aid, and tries to fill some of them focusing particularly on Niger, a country that has received aid since its independence in 1960, yet remains one of the world's poorest. The work contributes to the literature in three ways: First, it …
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Foreign Aid and Economic Growth in Sub Saharan Africa
… paper seeks to examine the relationship between foreign aid and economic growth in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). The study is based on a sample of 21 ‘low income countries’ as defined by The World Bank, and used data covering a 25 year period from 1991 to 2015. The variables in the study are; growth …
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Unraveling red tape: foreign aid allocation and the domestic bureaucracy
… 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 discrepancy …
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Foreign aid for economic growth: a case study of Uganda
… and for decades, despite large amounts of foreign aid inflow, there has been no significant improvement in relation to poverty reduction. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether foreign aid contributed to economic growth in Africa, with Uganda serving as a case study. Using data …
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The impact of foreign aid on voting inside the United Nations
… if there is a connection between United States foreign aid donations and a recipient nation's voting patterns in the United Nations General Assembly. Tests in the past have not employed thorough methodologies to deal with the abundance of variables that influence a nation's voting behavior. The …
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The publishing industry, the ideological framework and foreign aid in Tanzania
… and active participation of institutions in foreign aid allocation as well as the development of policy formulation, despite the policy of socialism and self-reliance. The new policy on production and distribution of school/college books legitimizes the SIDA proposal. Also argues that small …
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China’s Foreign Aid Loans to Africa; Acts of Extraction or Development?
<p>The continent of Africa is considered a developing region due to the high rate of poverty and lack of infrastructure, and China has stepped up to offer loans to countries in need across the continent. The billions of dollars in loans that China has widely distributed among African countries …
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Foreign aid and economic performance during crises in Sub-Saharan Africa
… has been recorded as the largest recipient of foreign aid. However, it remains the least developed continent of all. It is characterised by extreme poverty and scores very low on rule of law, transparency and openness, public accountability, and ethical leadership. These observations have led …
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Foreign aid in Africa : an analysis of its costs and benefits
It is a common 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 …
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Effects of Foreign Aid in SADC Region: A Case for Malawi
… continue to receive Official Development Aid, and Malawi is not an exception. This research paper examined the effect of Official Development Aid on the Gross Domestic Product and Human Development Index in Malawi, using annual time series data from 1990 to 2018. In addition, the …
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Does foreign aid Inflows promote better governance in Sub-Saharan Africa?
… have recently been experiencing an influx in foreign aid inflows, despite a decline in foreign direct investment. In most cases, due to conditions attached to foreign aid, it has hampered the recipient country's economy compared to the benefits attributed to aid especially for African …
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