Many developing-country governments rely heavily on trade tax revenue. Therefore, trade liberalization can be a potential source of significant fiscal instability and may affect government spending on development activities-at least in the short run. This article investigates whether donors use aid to compensate recipient nations for lost trade revenue or perhaps to reward them for moving toward freer trade regimes. The authors do not find empirical evidence supporting such motives. This is of some concern because binding government revenue constraints may hinder development prospects of some poorer nations. The authors use fixed effects to control for the usual political, strategic, and other considerations for aid allocations.
... large shares of aid from a broad range of donors, possess different levels of access to alternative... assistance provided through either bilateral donors, inter-governmental agencies, such as the U...
... sources, working with other bilateral aid donors and multilateral aid agencies to establ...
What President Obama's administration has been pursuing in Afghanistan for the past year has received international imprimatur, thanks to last month's well-scripted London Conference. Four words sum up that strategy: Surge, bribe and run. Mr. Obama has designed his twin troop surges not to rout the Afghan Taliban militarily but to strike a political deal with the enemy from a position of strength. As his top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, has admitted, the aim of such troop increases is to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table, not to beat back the insurgency. Without a deal with Taliban commanders, the U.S. cannot execute the "run" part. The Obama approach has been straightforward: If you can't defeat them, buy them off. Having failed to rout the Taliban, Wa...
... India has emerged as one of the largest bilateral aid donors. Regrettably, the Obama administration ...
If anything, the Bush administration intensified power imbalances through increased surveillance and regulation. [...] the reasons behind the Bush administration's policies were seemingly paradoxical, combining concerns over the humanitarian plight of the poorest countries with increased regulatory oversight.
... development banks (MDBs), and bilateral government aid agencies such as the U.S. Agency fo... reproduce the asymmetry of power between donors and aid recipients. Donor organizations-the IMF, W...
Cancer is the second-leading cause of death and disability in the world, behind only heart disease. It's responsible for one of every eight deaths, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit, the world's most authoritative media investigative organization. More people die of cancer every year around the world than of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined. Cancer deaths occur at six times the frequency of traffic fatalities and 42 times the frequency of death from wounds suffered in war. Cancer is no longer the disease that afflicts primarily the elderly in affluent countries, where it used to be a death sentence. It is a sort of plague in the developing world that keeps growing and spreading.
... of all deaths in the United States, and bilateral aid donors still do not consider cancer control a ...
....6 This would require a major change in how donors operate in the country and a rebalancing of milita... of Finance and the multilateral and bilateral institutions ignored the premise that a simple and...
CONSERVATION REFUGEES: The Hundred-Year Conflict Between Global Conservation and Native Peoples by Mark Dowie is reviewed. For centuries, governments, adventurers, settlers, and corporations have thrust aside anyone who stood between them and the resources and territory they craved. In Dowie's version of this story, however, the villains are not big business or corrupt governments, but biodiversity conservationists. In their enthusiasm for nature, conservationists have too often ended up riding roughshod over human rights.
... of billions of dollars more from bilateral and multilateral aid donors such as the World Bank...
The authors estimate the responsiveness of aid to recipient countries' economic and physical needs, civil/political rights, and government effectiveness. They look exclusively at the post-Cold War era and use fixed effects to control for the political, strategic, and other considerations of donors. They find that aid and per capita income have been negatively related, while aid has been positively related to infant mortality, rights, and government effectiveness.
... follow the recipient-needs model, while bilateral aid tended to follow the donor-interests model, al...
...The UK is one of the largest Western bilateral donors to Yemen. That conference yielded pledges o...
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