Financing the Response to AIDS in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: International Assistance From Donor Governments in 2010

Presents 2010 data on international AIDS assistance from donor governments, including trends by donor country and funding channel, aid per $1 million GDP by country, and gaps between needs and resources and between commitments and disbursements

Financing the Response to AIDS in Low-and Middle-Income Countries: International Assistance from the G8, European Commission and Other Donor Governments in 2009

Analyzes 2009 data on international AIDS assistance by donor country, by funding channel, on aid as percentages of GDP, and on gaps between needs and resources and between commitments and disbursements. Highlights the impact of the global economic crisis

When is foreign aid policy credible : aid dependence and conditionality

The author studies foreign aid policy within a principal-agent framework. He shows that one reason for foreign aid's poor overall record may be a moral hazard problem that shapes the aid recipient s incentive to undertake structural reform. The model's basic prediction is a two-way relationship: Disbursements of foreign aid are guided (in part) by the needs of the poor. Anticipating this, recipients have little incentive to improve the welfare of the poor. Preliminary econometric work shows that the data support this hypothesis. In principle, conditionality could partly solve this problem, but only if the donor can make a binding commitment to increase disbursements in good relative to bad states. Without such a commitment technology, aid disbursements remain guided by the needs of the poor and recipient countries maintain a low effort to reduce poverty. Contrary to the conventional wisdom found in the aid literature, the author shows that the welfare of all parties might be improved by using tied project aid or by delegating part of the aid budget to an (international) agency with less aversion to poverty.Development Economics&Aid Effectiveness,School Health,Economic Adjustment and Lending,Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research

Demand following and supply leading relationships: An empirical analysis for India

The study investigates the effects of activities of financial institutions (FIs). In particular, an econometric study has been undertaken to examine the ‘supply-leading’ and ‘demand-following’ characteristics of FI activities. The investigation is conducted by employing time series data using certain macro variables over the period 1962-63 to 1996-97. Our analysis shows the existence of a strong supply-leading (SL) relationship from real disbursements to real investments. The SL relation is further confirmed through the Sims causality tests. The demand-following (DF) relationship from real investments to real disbursements finds weak confirmation via the Sims causality test. Evidence therefore supports the presence of a strong SL link in the Indian context.demand following; supply leading; India

Donor funding for family planning: levels and trends between 2003 and 2013.

The International Conference on Population and Development in 1994 set targets for donor funding to support family planning programmes, and recent initiatives such as FP2020 have renewed focus on the need for adequate funding to rights-based family planning. Disbursements supporting family planning disaggregated by donor, recipient country and year are not available for recent years. We estimate international donor funding for family planning in 2003-13, the period covering the introduction of reproductive health targets to the Millennium Development Goals and up to the beginning of FP2020, and compare funding to unmet need for family planning in recipient countries. We used the dataset of donor disbursements to support reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health developed by the Countdown to 2015 based on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Creditor Reporting System. We assessed levels and trends in disbursements supporting family planning in the period 2003-13 and compared this to unmet need for family planning. Between 2003 and 2013, disbursements supporting family planning rose from under $400 m prior to 2008 to$886 m in 2013. More than two thirds of disbursements came from the USA. There was substantial year-on-year variation in disbursement value to some recipient countries. Disbursements have become more concentrated among recipient countries with higher national levels of unmet need for family planning. Annual disbursements of donor funding supporting family planning are far short of projected and estimated levels necessary to address unmet need for family planning. The reimposition of the US Global Gag Rule will precipitate an even greater shortfall if other donors and recipient countries do not find substantial alternative sources of funding

Financing the Response to AIDS in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: International Assistance From the G8, European Commission and Other Donor Governments, 2008

Summarizes 2008 data on international AIDS assistance from donor governments. Presents trends by donor country, by funding channel, on aid as percentages of GDP, and on the gaps between needs and resources and between commitments and disbursements

Audit report on the City of Swisher, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2011

Audit report on the City of Swisher, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 201

Report on a special investigation of Oran Township in Fayette County for the period January 1, 2003 through September 22, 2009

Report on a special investigation of Oran Township in Fayette County for the period January 1, 2003 through September 22, 200

Audit report on the Westory Fire Agency for the year ended June 30, 2009

Audit report on the Westory Fire Agency for the year ended June 30, 200

preliminary findings for the 2000 to 2008 period

1\. Introduction 2\. Contextualization, Theoretical Background and Methodological Framework 3\. Dependent Variable 3.1 Total Disbursements for All Investigated Catastrophes per Donor Country 3.2 Total Disbursements for All Emergencies Combined as % of GDP per Donor Country 3.3 Total Disbursements throughout the Period of Analysis 3.4 Disbursements per Donor Country over the Period of Analysis 4\. Independent Variable 4.1 Total Number of Articles on All Natural Disasters Combined per Donor Country 4.2 Total Number of Articles over the Period of Analysis 4.3 Combined Daily Number of Articles per Donor Country 4.4 Total Disbursements against Total Number of Articles - All Countries Combined 5\. Conclusions LiteratureThe establishment of the European External Action Service (EEAS) that took place with the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty lays the basis for a potentially more coherent and better-structured approach of the European Union to the issue of the provision of humanitarian aid. Within such a context, this paper investigates the relationship between the provision of emergency financial assistance and the extent of the presence of the issue of humanitarian aid in public discourse in seven EU member states. The empirical findings highlight a strong correlation between increases in issue salience and increases in the provision of humanitarian assistance as well as a significant concomitant variation in the issue cycles of the investigated EU member states