The main point of this paper is that foreign aid fails because the structure of its incentives resembles that of central planning. Aid is not only ineffective, it is arguably counterproductive.
Miroslav Prokopijevic
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Is the relationship between aid and economic growth nonlinear?: [PDF]
"There have been intensive debates on the role of aid in promoting economic development in developing countries by using cross-country analyses. Cross-country regression assuming linear relationship between aid and growth and without taking into ...
Kourtellos, Andros +2 more
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Arjan de Haan: How the Aid Industry Works: An Introduction to International Development.
Czech Journal of International Relations, 2010 Arjan de Haan: How the Aid Industry Works: An Introduction to International Development. 1st ed. Sterling: Kumarian Press, 2009, 237 stran, ISBN 978-1-6549-287-5.
Monika Brusenbauch Meislová
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Identifying GP trainees' priorities in simulation training: a questionnaire to aid course development in Scotland. [PDF]
BMJ Simul Technol Enhanc Learn, 2020 Phillips EC, Lavery S, Dickson J.
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Ghost of 0.7%: Origins and Relevance of the International Aid Target [PDF]
The international goal for rich countries to devote 0.7% of their national income to development assistance has become a cause célèbre for aid activists and has been accepted in many official quarters as the legitimate target for aid budgets. The origins
Michael Clemens, Todd Moss
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Discovery and validation of biomarkers to aid the development of safe and effective pain therapeutics: challenges and opportunities. [PDF]
Nat Rev Neurol, 2020 Davis KD +25 more
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Development Effectiveness at the Country Level [PDF]
While we know a lot about how countries become prosperous, we have only begun to understand how aid contributes to economic growth and poverty reduction.
Picciotto, Robert
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Space satellite to aid arctic oil development [PDF]
A project which utilizes the Nimbus-6 weather satellite and air-dropable data collection platforms for observation of Arctic ice movement is described. The information gained from the project could be valuable for planning oil recovery operations in the ...
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Working Paper 121 - Financing Goal 1 of the MDGs in Africa: Some Evidence from Cross-Country Data [PDF]
This study explores the role of development assistance to finance the required growth to reduce extreme poverty by half in 2015 in Africa. The study utilizes the financing gap and “optimal” aid allocation models to explore the implications of efficient ...
Shimeles Abebe
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Aid dependence and the quality of governance : a cross-country empirical analysis [PDF]
Good governance -- in the form of institutions that establish predictable, impartial, and consistently enforced rules for investors -- is crucial for the sustained and rapid growthof per capita incomes in poor countries.
Knack, Stephen
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