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Gender of a manager and firm performance in Africa: Does the business environment play a moderating role? 非洲经理人的性别与公司业绩：商业环境是否起调节作用？

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Journal of International Development Pub Date : 2024-10-02 DOI: 10.1002/jid.3936

Ibrahim Mike Okumu, Sunday Nathan, Edward Bbaale

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Can China's aid promote the position upgrading of recipient countries in the global value chains

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Journal of International Development Pub Date : 2024-10-02 DOI: 10.1002/jid.3956

Churen Sun, Jinqiang Xu, Hui Jiang

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Trade-offs between labour migration and agricultural productivity: Evidence from smallholder wheat systems in Nepal

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Journal of International Development Pub Date : 2024-09-29 DOI: 10.1002/jid.3959

Gokul P. Paudel, Trung Thanh Nguyen, Ulrike Grote

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Is corruption an input material for environmental pollution?

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Journal of International Development Pub Date : 2024-09-24 DOI: 10.1002/jid.3960

Hoang Van Hung, Nguyen Khanh Doanh

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How bureaucratic competition shapes foreign aid allocation: The case of South Korea's aid agencies

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Journal of International Development Pub Date : 2024-09-19 DOI: 10.1002/jid.3952

Taehee Whang, Elena V. McLean, Chamseul Yu

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Win-win or tradeoff? Investigating the hybridity of impact investing in Cambodia's microfinance industry

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Journal of International Development Pub Date : 2024-09-19 DOI: 10.1002/jid.3954

Kyungmin Park, Hannah Jun

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Can we define global collective action problems away?

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Journal of International Development Pub Date : 2024-09-17 DOI: 10.1002/jid.3955

Rune Jansen Hagen

{"title":"Can we define global collective action problems away?","authors":"Rune Jansen Hagen","doi":"10.1002/jid.3955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3955","url":null,"abstract":"The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals has rejuvenated an old debate: Can foreign aid be used to finance global public goods (GPGs)? There are those who see aid exclusively as a source of development funding for poor countries. And there are others who are open to answering the question in the affirmative. I put forward five arguments why the latter position is reasonable. Firstly, the formal definition of official development assistance (ODA) cannot be said to exclude its use in financing GPGs as these goods by definition benefit developing countries. Secondly, the amount of ODA provided has never been the gold standard of rich country effort envisaged by some. In particular, the level is boosted by the self-interests of donors. Thirdly, there is ample precedent for following the benefit principle when it comes to multilateral organisations, which are often seen as GPGs. Fourthly, distinguishing between national public goods and GPGs is not always straightforward as the former are in many cases inputs into the production of the latter, and in such cases, the dividing line between ‘traditional aid’ and ‘funding for GPGs’ is blurred. Finally, it is not obvious in practice that aid as country finance always generates greater welfare gains for developing countries than the provision of GPGs. In sum, being overly normative with respect to what ODA is distracts us from the real problem, namely, that collective action problems result in too little spending on all international public goods, including poverty alleviation in poor countries.","PeriodicalId":47986,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Development","volume":"37 1","pages":"107-128"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jid.3955","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143116391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Environmental protection versus economic growth: Determinants of individual preference

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Journal of International Development Pub Date : 2024-09-15 DOI: 10.1002/jid.3953

Andressa Porto Castro, Ely José de Mattos

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Five decades of neoliberal developmentalism in “Least Developed Countries”: A decolonial critique

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Journal of International Development Pub Date : 2024-09-14 DOI: 10.1002/jid.3951

Kapil Dev Regmi

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Association of international remittance with satisfaction and utilization of maternal healthcare services in Nepal: A secondary analysis of two cohort studies

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Journal of International Development Pub Date : 2024-09-10 DOI: 10.1002/jid.3950

Kasperi Kilpi, Soorej Puthoopparambil, Rejina Gurung, Honey Malla, Omkar Basnet, Ashish KC

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