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An empirical investigation of foreign aid effectiveness in reducing poverty in some selected SADC countries: 2005-2013
No full textHistorically, aid flows from the developed to developing countries have been economically
justified for reducing poverty either through directly targeting the poor or indirectly via
economic growth. This present study investigates whether or not aid has produced the
anticipated results in 12selected SADC countries using panel data analysis covering a period
of nine years (2005-2013). The variable of choice for measuring aid effectiveness in reducing
poverty in this present study is the human development index (HDI), a non-monetary poverty
measure. Overally, the study finds thataid has a negative and no significant impact on poverty
reduction, supporting the works of the public choice hypothesis. The negative and
insignificant results could beexplained by aid misallocation, misuse and lack of absorptive
capacity by recipient countries. Secondly for the analysis of how aid can be made more
effective in reducing poverty, empirical evidence suggests that institutional quality, control of
corruption and trade openness are vital for aid effectiveness. Economic growth and trade
openness have been found to be necessary conditions for poverty reductio
An Empirical Investigation of Foreign Aid Effectiveness in Reducing Poverty in Some Selected SADC Countries: 2005-2013
No full textHistorically, aid flows from the developed to developing countries have been economically
justified for reducing poverty either through directly targeting the poor or indirectly via
economic growth. This present study investigates whether or not aid has produced the
anticipated results in 12selected SADC countries using panel data analysis covering a period
of nine years (2005-2013). The variable of choice for measuring aid effectiveness in reducing
poverty in this present study is the human development index (HDI), a non-monetary poverty
measure. Overally, the study finds thataid has a negative and no significant impact on poverty
reduction, supporting the works of the public choice hypothesis. The negative and
insignificant results could beexplained by aid misallocation, misuse and lack of absorptive
capacity by recipient countries. Secondly for the analysis of how aid can be made more
effective in reducing poverty, empirical evidence suggests that institutional quality, control of
corruption and trade openness are vital for aid effectiveness. Economic growth and trade
openness have been found to be necessary conditions for poverty reduction
the case of Southern African Development Community (2000-2020)
Get PDFThesis(Master) -- KDI School: Master of Development Policy, 2022The paper assesses tax revenue performance in the Southern African Development Community by empirically estimating the member countries’ tax capacity and tax effort to determine member states that are near or far from their tax capacity using the standard regression approach. Tax revenue mobilization is of paramount importance for a country’s development and subsequent regional socioeconomic development; therefore, it is imperative to heighten the understanding of whether the current tax systems in the region provide enough tax revenue to meet public expenditure needs. Literature suggests that several economic, demographic, and institutional aspects restrict tax collections. In this regard, the study finds that the level of economic growth, financial deepening, and trade openness positively and significantly influence tax revenue mobilization. On the other side, urbanization, the share of agriculture in GDP, and the size of the shadow economy are negatively and significantly impacting on tax capacity. More so, the low levels of governance quality are having detrimental effects on tax collection and the effect is larger compared to other determinants. Overall low tax collection in the region is attributable to both low tax capacity and administrative inefficiencies. It is also established in the study that the impact of changes in tax structure and systems and external shocks should not be overlooked. The ranking of member countries into different groups of performers has assisted in providing broad guidance for tax policy design and reforms. However, the cross-cutting issue is the need for improving governance to build effective and efficient systems.1 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND
2 OVERVIEW OF SADC TAX STRUCTURES AND SYSTEMS
3 SCHOLARHIP REVIEW
4 METHODS, DATA, AND DATA SOURCES
5 PRESENTATION OF RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
6 CONCLUSION, POLICY IMPLICATIONS AND AREAS FOR FURTHER STUDYmasterpublishedKlery CHIKWED
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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