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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 urban informal sector and small-scale enterprise

Sanyal, Bishwapriya; Ferrin, Cynthia - 1986

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Value for money? : Impact of small enterprise development

Harper, Malcolm - 1998

Through a range of examples of best practice from within the field, this text evaluates, measures and reviews the costs and benefits of small enterprise development programmes. The authors show that it is possible to measure and compare the costs and benefits of small enterprise development...