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Win-win or tradeoff? Investigating the hybridity of impact investing in Cambodia's microfinance industry 双赢还是权衡？调查柬埔寨小额信贷行业影响投资的混合性

IF 1.7 4区经济学

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? 我们能把全球集体行动的问题排除在外吗？

IF 1.7 4区经济学

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 环境保护与经济增长：个人偏好的决定因素

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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 新自由主义发展主义在“最不发达国家”的五十年：一个非殖民化的批判

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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 国际汇款与尼泊尔孕产妇保健服务满意度和利用率的关系：对两项队列研究的二次分析

IF 1.7 4区经济学

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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Striking a balance between water use and environmental protection in an oasis—A case study of Ganzhou District, China 实现绿洲用水与环境保护之间的平衡--中国甘州区案例研究

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Journal of International Development Pub Date : 2024-09-07 DOI: 10.1002/jid.3942

Yaoben Lin, Yuanyuan Liu, Lei Wang

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Enterprise environmental performance under China's framework for Central Environmental Protection Inspection: Quasi-natural experimental evidence 中国中央环境保护督察框架下的企业环境绩效：准自然实验证据

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Journal of International Development Pub Date : 2024-09-07 DOI: 10.1002/jid.3948

Xiang Li, Hailin Lan, Ping Zeng

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Levelling the field: A review of the ICT revolution and agricultural extension in the Global South 平衡领域：对信息通信技术革命和全球南方农业推广的回顾

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Journal of International Development Pub Date : 2024-09-05 DOI: 10.1002/jid.3949

Rashid Parvez Khan, Saurabh Gupta, Thomas Daum, Regina Birner, Claudia Ringler

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Knowledge and power: Changing the education of the next generation of development practitioners 知识与力量：改变对下一代发展工作者的教育

IF 1.7 4区经济学

Journal of International Development Pub Date : 2024-09-05 DOI: 10.1002/jid.3937

Jo Murray Davies, Chernor Bah, Emma Mulhern, Precious Lamin, Arnold Williams

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Aspirations over tradition: Understanding Thai family farm succession planning 愿望重于传统：了解泰国家庭农场继承规划

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Journal of International Development Pub Date : 2024-09-05 DOI: 10.1002/jid.3945

Para Jansuwan, Kerstin K. Zander

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