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Absolute poverty linesPrivate consumption capabilities form only one facet of comprehensive living standards assessments, but they are an important facet whose measurement should be done well...
Cost effectiveness Poverty Public utilitiesWorking Paper
South Sudan: The Road from the Paris Declaration to the Reality of Juba, 2005-11During Sudan’s ‘interim period’ from the end of civil war in January 2005 until South Sudan’s independence in July 2011, foreign development agencies provided extensive support and billions of dollars in aid—for which in...
Cost effectiveness Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic developmentWorking Paper
Environmental and Climate Finance in a New World: How Past Environmental Aid Allocation Impacts Future Climate AidIn this paper we update previous work that categorizes foreign aid projects in terms of their likely impact on the natural environment...
Climate change Cost effectiveness Economic assistance and foreign aidBlog
Cost of Capital: The Real Price of Green Energy
4 July 2013 Carl-Gustav Lindén In recent years the price of green energy technology has come down dramatically. This means that European investments in renewable energy can be very competitive...
Capital Capital market Cost effectivenessBlog
What Can Experiments Tell Us About How to Improve Governance?Rachel M. Gisselquist and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa Over the past decade, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have become a staple of research in development economics...
Cost effectiveness Experimental design Field experimentsBlog
Perspectives for Busan: From ReComTony Addison, Lucy Scott, and Annett Victorero Aid effectiveness was a recurrent theme during the UNU-WIDER conference on ‘Foreign Aid: Research and Communication’ (ReCom), held in October in Helsinki...
Econometric models (Economic development) Cost effectiveness Economic assistance and foreign aidJournal Article
Financial Liberalization and Banking Sector Efficiency in India: A Fourier Flexible functional form and Stochastic Frontier ApproachThe Indian financial sector has undergone a significant structural transformation since the initiation of financial liberalization during 1990’s. It brought significant changes in the financial sector in general and banking in particular...
Financial liberalization Banking Cost effectivenessBook Chapter
Aid Allocation and Aid Effectiveness: An Empirical AnalysisFrom the book: Development Aid
Cost effectiveness Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic developmentJournal Article
Ownership Reform, Foreign Competition and Efficiency of Chinese Commercial Banks: A Non-parametric ApproachPart of Journal Special Issue The Rise of China and India
Banking Competition Cost effectivenessWorking Paper
Ownership Reform, Foreign Competition, and Efficiency of Chinese Commercial Banks: A Non-Parametric ApproachSince China joined the WTO in 2001, the pressure for bank reforms has mounted as China ought to fully open up its financial market to foreign competition by 2006...
Banking Competition Cost effectivenessBlog
Increasing Aid Effectiveness by Harmonization Requires Reduced Proliferation
by Mark McGillivray The international development community, including senior representatives from partner countries, bilateral and multilateral donors, met in Paris in late February and early March 2006 at the High Level Forum on aid effectiveness...
Cost effectiveness Economic assistance and foreign aid Millennium Development GoalsWorking Paper
Aid Allocation and Aid Effectiveness: An Empirical AnalysisThe paper performs aid allocation analysis using OECD-DAC data covering 20 aid donors and 176 recipients over the period 1980-2003...
Cost effectiveness Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic developmentJournal Special Issue
Sustainability of External Development FinanceCost effectiveness Economic assistance and foreign aid
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Quality adjusted measures of services in public schoolsThis study considers specification and estimation of cost functions in public schools...
Cost effectiveness Public utilitiesBook Chapter
The Hidden Side of Group Behaviour: A Gender Analysis of Community Forestry in South AsiaFrom the book: Group Behaviour and Development
Cost effectiveness Equality and inequality Forests and forestryBook Chapter
Group Behaviour and DevelopmentFrom the book: Group Behaviour and Development
Cooperative societies Cost effectiveness Equality and inequality