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More than 760,000 people have been displaced in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo since the beginning of 2012, in the Kivu provinces alone. This reflects a new dimension to the ongoing crisis for the country. Areas that were relatively stable are again under attack as the Congolese army fights M23 rebels, and new localised armed groups spring up.
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The December issue of GREAT Insights takes Mozambique as an illustration of the challenges many African countries face: what will it take to transform high economic growth, impressive natural resources discoveries, a relatively stable political...
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In the face of budgetary limitations, constrained international aid, and competitive demands from different sectors, how can those of us working in the health sector make a strong case to finance ministers that public investments in health are as productive as public investments in, say, infrastructure or agriculture? Delete the scoop?
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Does international aid foster economic growth?If there seems to be near unanimity among policymakers about the positive role of aid, the academic community has not found any robust evidence that aid contributes to development. This column presents a new empirical strategy that isolates the causal effect of aid on growth. The effect is found to be larger than previously estimated. The average developing country citizen would be about 15% poorer today had aid never been disbursed. Delete the scoop?
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The Indomitable in Pursuit ofthe Inexplicable: The WorldDevelopment Reports’ Failure to Comprehend Economic Growth Despite Determined Attempts,1978–2008 by William Easterly Delete the scoop?
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For those in favor of immigration reform, it might have been a relief that the presidential candidates spent more time describing how workers overseas are stealing American jobs than they did accusing foreign workers of stealing jobs right here in the U.S.A. But the status quo on immigration apparently supported by the candidates isn’t nearly good enough. Delete the scoop?
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Jonathan Glennie: It is easy to assume that economic growth automatically implies reduced aid dependency, but by doing so we are failing to understand the role aid plays in different contexts . Delete the scoop?
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