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Economic assistance and foreign aid
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Aid, education policy, and development

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid, Education Policy, and Development

Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic policy Sustainable development
Journal Article
Does foreign aid harm political institutions?

The notion that foreign aid harms the institutions of recipient governments remains prevalent. We combine new disaggregated aid data and various metrics of political institutions to re-examine this relationship...

Economic assistance and foreign aid
Blog
Building on success in development aid

In academic discourse, it has become almost ritualistic to begin a piece on foreign aid by highlighting the sharp controversies over its effectiveness as a tool to promote social and economic progress in developing countries...

Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development
Working Paper
Aid, education policy, and development

This paper discusses the recent history of education aid policy. It highlights an important shift in policy thinking in the international aid architecture that has dominated the global education aid agenda since the early 1990s...

Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development Education
Working Paper
China’s international development finance: Past, present, and future

China is emerging as perhaps the most globally significant development finance provider, going far beyond concessional foreign aid...

Economic assistance and foreign aid Finance
Journal Article
How to Assess the Effectiveness of Development Aid Projects: Evaluation Ratings versus Project Indicators

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid, Social Policy and Development

Economic assistance and foreign aid Water
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Impact of Aid and Public Spending—A Macro–micro Framework

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid, Social Policy and Development

Economic assistance and foreign aid Millennium Development Goals
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Innovative Delivery Mechanisms: Australian Aid Partnership with Churches in Papua New Guinea

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid, Social Policy and Development

Economic assistance and foreign aid Religion
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Brazilian South–South Development Cooperation: The Case of the Ministry of Social Development in Africa

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid, Social Policy and Development

Economic assistance and foreign aid Food security International economic relations
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Donor Coordination for Effective Government Policies?

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid, Social Policy and Development

Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development Government spending policy
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Aid, Political Business Cycles and Growth in Africa

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid, Social Policy and Development

Business cycles Econometric models Economic assistance and foreign aid
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The Progressivity and Regressivity of aid to the Social Sectors

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid, Social Policy and Development

Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development Public goods
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Aid, social policy and development

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid, Social Policy and Development

Economic assistance and foreign aid Financial institutions, International Millennium Development Goals
Journal Special Issue
Aid, Social Policy and Development

The UNU-WIDER Special Issue aims to address collectively the following questions: (1) What are the principles and facts that have underpinned the evolution of bilateral and multilateral social sector aid over the past 25 years?...

Economic assistance and foreign aid Millennium Development Goals Sustainable development
Working Paper
General budget support, health expenditures, and neonatal mortality rate: A synthetic control approach

I examine impacts of general budget support in 12 countries using the synthetic control approach. First, I analyse changes in government expenditures on health before and after the introduction of budget support...

Economic assistance and foreign aid Health expenditures
Journal Article
Is Small Beautiful? Small Enterprise, Aid, and Employment in Africa

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid and Employment

Economic assistance and foreign aid Labour Small business
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