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Business and Partnerships for Development
Kolk, Ans; van Tulder, Rob; Kostwinder, Esther - 2008
The potential contribution of companies as partners in furthering development objectives is frequently mentioned, but has received limited research attention. What has also remained unclear is to what extent companies can play such a role via the various individual and collaborative means...
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Natural Disasters, Foreign Aid, and Economic Growth
Jackson, Osborne - 2014
This paper explores the impact of foreign aid on economic growth using variation in aid inflows from natural disasters. Because using a country's own disaster exposure as an instrument for aid inflows violates exogeneity assumptions, I instead use the disaster exposure of a country's "aid...
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The relationship between aid and economic growth of developing countries : does institutional quality and economic freedom matter?
Abate, Chala Amante - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-20
Foreign aid is an important means of finance for governments of developing countries. The current study investigates whether too much inflow of aid to developing countries is beneficial or harmful to their economy and whether institutional quality and economic freedom matters in aid–growth...
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Survey Methodology : International Developments
Kreuter, Frauke - 2009
Falling response rates and the advancement of technology have shaped the discussion in survey methodology in the last … few years. Both led to a notable change in data collection efforts. Survey organizations try to create adaptive … recruitment and survey designs and increased the collection of non-survey data for sampled cases. While the first strategy is an …
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What happens when women deal with foreign aid : the case of Sub-Saharan countries
Chiariello, Valentina - In: PSL quarterly review 75 (2022) 300, pp. 25-46
This paper seeks to evaluate whether there is any impact on aid effectiveness when there is a different gender composition of parliaments in recipient countries. The sample observed refers to 40 Sub-Saharan African countries over the period 2007-2019. The findings gained demonstrate that a...
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The effects of financial and technical assistance on employment growth in Bulgaria and Macedonia
Bah, El-hadj; Brada, Josef C. - In: Journal of contemporary economic and business issues 1 (2014) 1, pp. 5-17
Using survey data on Bulgarian and Macedonian firms that participated in USAID programs providing technical and …
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Role of E-Commerce in Export Development for SMEs in Developing Countries
Khaskheli, Asadullah - 2017
Ubiquitous Information and Communication technologies use has driven E-commerce growth at a rapid pace for the last many years. It has expanded at double the rate of physical retailers for the last decade. SMEs despite being crucial to world economies owing to their flexibility and...
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Impacts of the sustainable livelihood program's microenterprise development assistance with seed capital fund on poor households in the Philippines
Orbeta, Aniceto C.; Magno-Ballesteros, Marife; Corpus, … - 2020
June 2018 were matched with nonrecipient CCT households. We use data from a survey of 2,592 CCT households in 39 cities …
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