scholarly journals Does development assistance reduce violence? Evidence from Afghanistan

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiffany Chou
Keyword(s):  
Local Governance ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Aid Effectiveness ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Using Data ◽  
National Solidarity Program ◽  
Development Spending ◽  
National Solidarity ◽  
Do So

Current military doctrine emphasizes the importance of development spending in reducing insurgent violence. Using data from three distinct development programs, the Afghan National Solidarity Program, USAID's Local Governance and Community Development Program, and the U.S. military's Commander's Emergency Response Program (CERP), combined with military records of insurgent-initiated events, this article explores whether development aid in Afghanistan is violence-reducing. I find that overall spending has no clear effect on rebel attacks. Moreover, the type of development program most effective at reducing violence in Iraq - small CERP projects - does not appear to do so in Afghanistan. Possible reasons include troop strength, conditionality of aid, effectiveness of aid in producing benign outcomes, and measurement issues.

The Influence of Incubator and Accelerator Participation on Nanotechnology Venture Success

2021 ◽  
pp. 104225872110245
Author(s):  
Jennifer L. Woolley ◽  
Nydia MacGregor
Keyword(s):  
Venture Capital ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Government Grants ◽  
Recent Growth ◽  
Using Data

This study investigates how venture development programs such as private incubators, university incubators, and accelerators influence the success of participating nanotechnology startups. With the recent growth in such programs, empirical work is needed to compare their impact on participants across programs and with nonparticipants. Using data on firm bankruptcies, liquidation, government grants, and venture capital, we find benefits, but the influence of each venture development program varies greatly. We further investigate the influence of program services and resources to clarify program heterogeneity beyond existing typologies. The results clarify the role of these programs and ecosystem intermediaries.

scholarly journals Empowering Women through Development Aid: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Afghanistan

2013 ◽  
Vol 107 (3) ◽  
pp. 540-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDREW BEATH ◽  
FOTINI CHRISTIA ◽  
RUBEN ENIKOLOPOV
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Gender Quotas ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
General Role ◽  
Female Participation ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Randomized Field Experiment

In societies with widespread gender discrimination, development programs with gender quotas are considered a way to improve women's economic, political, and social status. Using a randomized field experiment across 500 Afghan villages, we examine the effects of a development program that mandates female participation. We find that even in a highly conservative context like Afghanistan, such initiatives improve outcomes specific to female participation in some economic, social, and political activities, including increased mobility and income generation. They, however, produce no change in more entrenched female roles linked to family decision-making or in attitudes toward the general role of women in society.

scholarly journals Official Development Aid: Plaster in A Wound? Evidence Using Data From Ethiopia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cherkos Meaza
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Aid Effectiveness ◽  
Political Leader ◽  
Real Gdp ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Official Development Aid

Abstract The flow of aid to developing countries has increased massively and they receive billions of dollars per year in the form of aid from bilateral and multilateral donors. However, the economic growth achieved by many developing countries in general has not been satisfactory. Poverty is still there and resulted in a custom of aid dependence and foster the opportunity for the corrupted political leader. The conclusion on aid effectiveness is doubtful among economists, found to be inconclusive. This paper intends to see how ethiopian economy is reacting to the flow of foreign aid coming from rest of the world viz-a-viz the current most prestigous and influential arguments against and pro-effectiveness of aid. A time series on important parameters extending from 1981 to the most current 2017 is used and an econometrics techniques ECM is employed to examine the short run dynamics and long run relationship among the variables. The result of the short run dynamics showed that aid has a negative and statistically significant impact on economic growth. However, the impacts turns to be positive in the long run. economic growth measured by the real GDP adjusts to its long run equilibrium with an average speed of about 25.7 percent annually and it will roughly take it about 4 years to restore back to equilibrium, ceteris paribus.

Development Distribution? EU Aid for Formal Audiovisual Distribution and the Case of Africa’s First Video-on-Demand Platform

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 768-784
Author(s):  
Benjamin A. J. Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Video On Demand ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Global Media ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Economic Development Program ◽  
Formal Distribution

This article examines the European Union’s support for formal distribution initiatives abroad, focusing on ACPCultures+, an economic development program that aims to grow the audiovisual industries of developing countries through the expansion and adaptation of the logics and mechanisms of intra-European media policies. While these distribution initiatives aim to challenge Hollywood’s reach in developing countries, their activities nevertheless foster the integration of audiovisual industries in developing countries into global media industries. At the same time, the program’s pairing of formal distribution and development aid is at times at odds with audience and industry expectations. Using data from policy documents, fieldwork in Brussels, and interviews with recipients of ACPCultures+ distribution project awards—including a detailed case study of Africa’s first VOD platform—I explore how these initiatives attempt to shape formal distribution in countries on the peripheries of large audiovisual industries.

Take the Money and Run: The Determinants of Compliance with Aid Agreements

2016 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Desha M. Girod ◽  
Jennifer L. Tobin
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Aid Effectiveness ◽  
Income Sources ◽  
Resource Rents ◽  
Natural Resource Rents ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Do So

AbstractConditions on aid agreements aim to increase aid effectiveness, and are, therefore, an important component of aid agreements. Yet little is known about why aid-recipient governments comply with these conditions. Some scholars have suggested a strategic-importance hypothesis: recipients comply when donors enforce conditions—and donors enforce conditions when recipients are not strategically important. However, there are many cases where strategically important countries comply with conditions and strategically unimportant countries fail to do so. We argue that to explain compliance, we must also understand how the desire to maximize revenue from major income sources, such as FDI and natural resource rents, changes the recipient's incentive to comply. Using data on World Bank records of compliance from 1964 to 2010, we find strong support for our hypotheses even after accounting for different model specifications and potential endogeneity. Paradoxically, donors can secure compliance from recipients for reasons unrelated to the promise of additional aid.

The Impact of Small Regional Economic Development Commissions: Is There Any Bang After Just a Few Bucks?

2020 ◽  
pp. 089124242097247
Author(s):  
Tyler Morin ◽  
Mark Partridge
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Regional Economic Development ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Mississippi Valley ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
Lower Mississippi Valley ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Intent To Treat ◽  
The Impact

Despite substantial funding going to regional economic development programs, little is known about the benefits of some of the smaller, place-based programs. The authors extend the literature on regional commissions by analyzing the economic gains to the Delta Regional Authority (DRA). The DRA was founded in 2000 to provide enhanced development aid to 252 lower Mississippi Valley counties. Using data from 1997 to 2016, the authors assess the DRA’s impact on employment, income, migration, and poverty. One-to-one propensity score matching is used to generate counterfactual counties. Because of the endogenous nature of the treatment, the authors instrument for counties being included in the DRA using a dummy for whether the county is within the lower Mississippi watershed. The ensuing results reflect an estimation of the intent-to-treat benefits of the DRA. The authors find that the DRA is associated with income gains and decreases in unemployment; however, it has no impact on poverty or migration.

scholarly journals Official Development Aid: Plaster in A Wound? Evidence Using Data From Ethiopia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cherkos Meaza
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Aid Effectiveness ◽  
Political Leader ◽  
Real Gdp ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Official Development Aid

Abstract The flow of aid to developing countries has increased massively and they receive billions of dollars per year in the form of aid from bilateral and multilateral donors. However, the economic growth achieved by many developing countries in general has not been satisfactory. Poverty is still there and resulted in a custom of aid dependence and foster the opportunity for the corrupted political leader. The conclusion on aid effectiveness is doubtful among economists, found to be inconclusive.This paper intends to see how ethiopian economy is reacting to the flow of foreign aid coming from rest of the world viz-a-viz the current most prestigous and influential arguments against and pro-effectiveness of aid. A time series on important parameters extending from 1981 to the most current 2017 is used and an econometrics techniques ECM is employed to examine the short run dynamics and long run relationship among the variables.The result of the short run dynamics showed that aid has a negative and statistically significant impact on economic growth. However, the impacts turns to be positive in the long run. economic growth measured by the real GDP adjusts to its long run equilibrium with an average speed of about 25.7 percent annually and it will roughly take it about 4 years to restore back to equilibrium, ceteris paribus.

scholarly journals Official Development Aid: Plaster in A Wound? Evidence Using Data From Ethiopia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cherkos Meaza
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Aid Effectiveness ◽  
Political Leader ◽  
Real Gdp ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Official Development Aid

Abstract The flow of aid to developing countries has increased massively and they receive billions of dollars per year in the form of aid from bilateral and multilateral donors. However, the economic growth achieved by many developing countries, in general, has not been satisfactory. Poverty is still there and resulted in a custom of aid dependence and foster the opportunity for the corrupted political leader. The conclusion on aid effectiveness is doubtful among economists, found to be inconclusive.This paper intends to see how the Ethiopian economy is reacting to the flow of foreign aid coming from the rest of the world viz-a-viz the current most prestigious and influential arguments against and pro-effectiveness of aid. A time series on important parameters extending from 1981 to the most current 2017 is used and an econometrics technique ECM is employed to examine the short-run dynamics and long-run relationship among the variables.The result of the short-run dynamics showed that aid has a negative and statistically significant impact on economic growth. However, the impacts turn to be positive in the long run. economic growth measured by the real GDP adjusts to its long-run equilibrium with an average speed of about 25.7 percent annually and it will roughly take it about 4 years to restore to equilibrium, ceteris paribus.

Partisipasi Masyarakat dalam program pembangunan Infrastruktur Perdesaan (PPIP)

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-60
Author(s):  
Lina Kumala Dewi ◽  
Bambang Triono ◽  
Dian Suluh Kusuma Dewi
Keyword(s):  
Development Program ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Technical Documentation ◽  
Rural Infrastructure ◽  
High Participation ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Household Heads

The construction of public participation has paid his dues. This is that in realizing development projects readily undergoing a failure that empowers people. Related in all process that deals with planning, implementation, the use of results and development monitoring. The rural infrastructure development program (PPIP) is development programs community empowerment. Where people have got to dive headlong in village development, especially physical development he purposes of this research is to find how the participation of the community in the Rural infrastructure development program (PPIP), Ngranget Village, Dagangan District, Madiun Regency. The kind of research is qualitative descriptive. In research, this is the population is the number of household heads involved in the delivery rabat concrete development in Ngranget village which consisted of 95 KK. The majority of informants interviewed in this research was 12 people. Was used in the study data collection method that is Technical Documentation interviews and data available for analysis namely described the results of research or data with a form of what is he got writer whether it is the results of the interviews, or result in appreciating documentation then investigated and the studies of the issue and. The result that the community participation in development in the village of rabat concrete Ngranget mind (planning), low participation in the form of energy high, participation in the form of expertise, quite low in the form of goods low, the form of money and participation is very low.

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