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Aid, Social Policy and Development [PDF]

Journal of International Development, 2015
AbstractThis paper discusses past and current social policy strategies in the international aid architecture as an introduction to the UNU‐WIDER Special Issue. Beginning in the 1990s, aid strategy and policy shifted to put a stronger emphasis on human development. This accelerated with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and will continue under the
Addison, Anthony John, Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel, Tarp, Finn   +2 more
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Equity Implications in Evaluating Development Aid: The Italian Case

Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2020
Background: In the field of development aid, social equity is an emerging issue that concerns the evaluation community in its theoretical and practical dimensions. Purpose: A widely held belief is that evaluators do not apply theory. In this paper, we
Marina Forestieri
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The HIT Network for Children and Adolescents With CNS Tumors Facilitates Improvements of Diagnostic Assessments, Multimodal Treatments, Individual Counseling, and Research in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The HIT network was established in 2000 to create a population‐based structure aiming to improve survival rates and reduce late effects for children with central nervous system (CNS) tumors by conducting comprehensive clinical trials.
Stefan Rutkowski, Michael C. Frühwald, Gudrun Fleischhack, Stephan Tippelt, Pablo Hernáiz‐Driever, Olaf Witt, Astrid Gnekow, Christof Kramm, Matthias Eyrich, Johannes E. A. Wolf, Hermann Müller, Carsten Friedrich, Uwe R. Kordes, Denise Obrecht‐Sturm, Petra Ketteler, Barbara von Zezschwitz, Pascal Johann, Dominik Sturm, Karoline Nemes, Stefan Schönberger, Till Milde, Brigitte Bison, Monika Warmuth‐Metz, Torsten Pietsch, Ulrich Schüller, Arend Koch, David Capper, Martin Hasselblatt, Christian Thomas, Christian Hagel, Stefan M. Pfister, Felix Sahm, David T. W. Jones, Martin U. Schuhmann, Jürgen Krauss, Pedram Emami, Ahmed El Damaty, Rolf D. Kortmann, Rudolf Schwarz, Jürgen Debus, Mechthild Krause, Fabian Pohl, Holger Ottensmeier, Lisa Bußenius, Katja Baust, Andreas Faldum, Cecile Ronckers, Desiree Grabow, Martin Benesch, Thomas Perwein, Karin Dieckmann, Irene Slavc, Johannes Gojo, Nicolas U. Gerber, André O. von Bueren, Katrin Scheinemann, Gabriele Calaminus, Beate Timmermann, Ulrich‐Wilhelm Thomale, Martin Mynarek   +59 more
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Using the arts to work with refugees and displaced persons in times of crisis and war

South African Journal of Arts Therapies
Our global community is experiencing the highest numbers of internally displaced persons and refugees brought about by crises and war. Not since World War II have we seen such huge numbers of persons who have been separated from their families and ...
Phillip Speiser, Vivien Marcow Speiser, Raymond Saner , Lichia Saner Yiu , Nathalie Robelot-Timtchenko, Joanna Wroblewska, Debra Kalmanowitz, Bobby Lloyd   +7 more
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Development Diplomacy. Development Aid as a Part of Public Diplomacy in the Pursuit of Foreign Policy Aims: Theoretical and Practical Considerations

Historia i Polityka, 2016
This article’s aims are twofold. Firstly, it endeavours to define the concept of development diplomacy (that is, diplomacy done through development aid) as a part of public diplomacy that realises its aims thanks to soft power re- sources.
Karolina Zielińska
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Aid and development : issues and reflections [PDF]

, 2013
The paper has three main sections. The first is a review of two particular propositions which appear in Dambisa Moyo’s 2009 book Dead Aid which were not subjected to rigorous analysis in the reviews which appeared following its publication.
Tribe, Michael
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Stressful Events Reported by Childhood Cancer Survivors and Community Controls From the St. Jude Lifetime (SJLIFE) Cohort: A Mixed Method Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Characterizing stressful events reported by childhood cancer survivors experienced throughout the lifespan may help improve trauma‐informed care relevant to the survivor experience. Methods Participants included 2552 survivors (54% female; 34 years of age) and 469 community controls (62% female; 33 years of age) from the St.
Megan E. Ware, Colter K. Clayton, Fang Wang, Sedigheh Mirzaei, Kyla Shelton, Tara M. Brinkman, Victoria Willard, Katianne M. Howard Sharp, Kevin Krull, Lindsay F. Schwartz, Melissa M. Hudson, Gregory T. Armstrong, Kirsten K. Ness, Rachel T. Webster   +13 more
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The Impact of External Finance on Youth Employment in Arab Countries for the Period (1996-2021) [PDF]

تنمیة الرافدین
Youth unemployment is one of the most critical challenges facing Arab countries, due to its undesirable economic, political, and social impacts. In an essential aspect of this problem, economic literature indicates the insufficiency of the capital needed
Mahmoud Al-Tatani, Mufeed Almula-Dhanoon
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Learning from urban projects: why and how we should unlock the learning potential of urban development projects and programmes

International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2022
Urban projects are developed partly to solve local problems but often have wider aims to influence policy and practise. However, there is very little long-term evaluation carried out, and few systematic efforts to link the experience gained in project ...
Forbes Davidson
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An economic analysis of aid fungibility : Japan's official development assistance to Indonesia : a research thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Applied Economics at Massey University [PDF]

, 1996
This study examines aid fungibility of Japan's official development assistance (ODA) to Indonesia for the period 1973 to 1994. Aid fungibility, often known as switching of aid money into non-development purposes, is one of the most controversial issues ...
Mitsuhashi, Keiju
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