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The total funding envelope for World Bank projects is often divided among various state and non-state actors, each of which can have competing ideas about or interests in the project. How does the division of financing relate to overall project effectiveness? I argue that too many funding...
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Aid beneficiaries know very little about development interventions in their own communities. This lack of transparency … and information is likely to reduce beneficiaries' ability and willingness to become active in local development. It may …
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In this paper we analyse the impact of foreign aid on gender outcomes and attitudes. We do this by matching geocoded household surveys with aid projects. This offers a middle way between project evaluations and aggregated cross-country comparisons, measuring an average community effect around...
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perceptions in the employment decision-making process. Crucial to the analysis is the introduction of the aid-industry/development … development sector. The results show that cognitive ability matters for occupational choice, as higher ability workers are more … likely to choose the development sector over other sectors. Skilled graduates also sort by intrinsic motivations to some …
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This survey of the 2016 replenishments of three multilateral development bank soft funds and of the Global Fund for … AIDS, TB and Malaria shows that a significant re-set of the multilateral development finance system is taking place, with …, the International Development Association). 'Graduation' of countries away from eligibility for highly concessional …
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development partners, introduced the Tanzania Joint Assistance Strategy. This resulted in an improvement in the country …'s operational development strategies and by 2010 out of 13 indicators with applicable targets, six were met. The paper concludes …
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. Whilst US aid has correctly been cited as key factor in explaining the rapid post-war development of South Korea and Taiwan …
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universities and the infrastructure for higher education in forestry, agriculture, and rural development, is important in the long …
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importance for official development assistance. …
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-operation and Development's (OECD) Creditor Reporting System (CRS) data on foreign aid and indices of democracy from the Varieties …
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