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Keynote speech by Richard Manning, chair of OECD/DAC
No full text“Keynote speech by Richard Manning, Chair of OECD/DAC” These are important steps towards PARIS21’s goals to develop a culture of evidence-based policy making and implementation to improve governance and government effectiveness in reducing poverty and achieving the MDGs
The Allocation of Development Aid Assistance: Do new donors have old motives?
No full textThe aid allocation literature explores the motives behind development aid assistance. This literature is enormous, yet surprisingly, the extant empirical studies have in the main only focused on the motives of established donors. Consequently, relatively little is known of the motives of new donors. This paper explores the aid allocation motives of three relatively new DAC donors: Greece, Luxembourg, and Portugal. Both OLS and Tobit two-way effects estimators are used to model their aid allocation process. The results indicate that humanitarian concerns are not an important factor for these three donors. Greece contributes aid predominately to its neighbors and to transitional East European nations. Portugal is motivated by commercial interests and former colony status. The bandwagon effect exists in reverse for Portugal. Commercial interests operate also for Luxembourg. Additionally, Luxembourg appears to donate to smaller more developed countries and is less inclined to donate to East European nations.foreign aid allocation, bilateral aid, economic development, humanitarian concerns.
Keynote speech by Richard Manning, chair of OECD/DAC
No full textKeynote speech by Richard Manning, Chair of OECD/DAC. Mr. Manning, on his remarks highlighted that, Better statistics are needed most importantly for greater effectiveness of public expenditure generally, however it is funded, and much more remains to be done to ensure the better use of statistics as part of the enabling environment for development. This means that governments and civil society need to demand better statistics and donors should stand ready to support this according to partner country priorities, either directly or indirectly as part of budget or sector support. A good statistical development strategy, adequately funded and successfully implemented, can make a big difference to the performance of a national statistical system and help resource-starved statistical services to break free from the vicious cycle of under-funding and under-performance. The PARIS21 secretariat will present a report on progress by African countries in preparing NSDSs; and a complementary report for statistical capacity building by the donor community
First Forum on African Statistical Development (FASDEV): Opening statement by Richard Manning DAC chairman and co-chair of PARIS21 consortium
No full textThis opening statement delivered by Richard Manning DAC Chairman and Co-Chair of PARIS 21 Consortium (Transcript of a video-recorded statement) at the First forum on African statistical development (FASDEV). Mr. Manning, on his remarks highlighted that, Statistics are a policy issue, not just a technical one. They are a vital ingredient in policy setting and decision-making; and crucial to improve governance, accountability and transparency. A National Strategy for the Development of Statistics provides an overall vision for the development of the national statistical system as part of the information and monitoring processes needed by countries for national development and Poverty Reduction Strategies, such as PRSPs, as well as for 2010 and 2015 MDG monitoring. UN agencies set standards and develop methods adapted to developing country needs, and they disseminate national statistics and incorporate them into their own institution’s databases
Versatile DAC-less successive approximation ADC architecture for medium speed data acquisition
No full textImplementation of the DAC is usually the bottleneck in designing a SAR ADC. Here an innovative DAC-less SAR (DLSAR) ADC architecture is presented which alleviates some drawbacks of the conventional SAR counterpart. The proposed DLSAR binary search algorithm is comprised of two arithmetic operations of division-by-two and subtraction to emulate the DAC function. The hardware of the DLSAR ADC is implemented using ordinary circuit building blocks of a SAR ADC but with less complexity and more robustness against PVT variations as DAC is removed. The developed DLSAR architecture is versatile so that the converter hardware could be readily reconfigured for different sampling rates and resolutions. Based on post-layout simulations in 0.18 μm CMOS process, the designed 8-bit DLSAR ADC consumes 150 μW of power at 2 MS/s including the asynchronous control logic circuit. The SFDR of the converter is up to 62 dB and the ENOB reaches 7.8 bits while it remains above 7.5 bits across most PVT corners without calibration. Also, by reconfiguring the DLSAR ADC to 9-bit resolution at 1 MS/s, the ENOB is generally around 8.2 bits achieving a scaled figure-of-merit (SFoM) better than 3.0 Ç/c-s.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Bio-Electronic
First Forum on African Statistical Developm ent (FASDEV): Opening statement by Richard Manning DAC chairman and co-chair of PARIS21 consortium
No full textOpening statement By Richard Manning DAC Chairm and Co-Chair ofPARIS21 Consortium With the Millennium Declaration in 2000, the joint statement issued from the Monterrey International Conference on Financing for Development in 2002, and the Marrakech Second International Roundtable for M managing for Development Results in 2004, the regional and international development agenda is evolving. In particular, the dem and for development data, to feed both the national land international statistical system is accelerating
Brave New World: A Literature Review of Emerging Donors and the Changing Nature of Foreign Assistanc- Working Paper 273
No full textIn this paper, we look at the scale and scope of emerging donors, many of which are developing economies themselves. On the basis of a survey of the literature, we find that estimates of annual aid flows from new donors (so-called non-DAC donors) vary greatly and are somewhere between 41.7 billion, or 8 and 31 percent of global gross ODA. We find that new donors are not a monolithic group but instead represent three distinct models of aid delivery, which we describe as the DAC Model, the Arab Model and the Southern Model. While we see the need to increase transparency and accountability of aid flows across these delivery models, we do not see a convergence to the DAC model. Rather, emerging donors may follow different paths, in accordance with their own traditions and standards. We argue that encouraging aid transparency, especially reporting data on project-level assistance, must be the core focus of the aid community. To engage the non-DAC donors, the forum for international aid coordination might need to be moved away from the OECD-DAC platform; DAC could instead serve as one donor caucus within a larger international system of aid reporting.OECD-DAC, Emerging donors, BRICs, Arab donors, Aid transparency
Reply to discussion on \u27Hyper-permeable granite: lessons from test pumping in the Eastgate Geothermal Borehole, Weardale, UK\u27 by PL Younger and DAC Manning Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, 43, 5-10
No full textA 3V 15b 157W Cryo-CMOS DAC for Multiplexed Spin-Qubit Biasing
No full textThis paper presents a 15b cryo-CMOS DAC for multiplexed spin-qubit biasing implemented in a 22-nm FinFET process. The integrating-DAC architecture and the robust digitally-assisted high-voltage output stage enable a low power dissipation (157W) and small area (0.08mm2) independent of the number of biased qubits, and a 3V output range well beyond the nominal supply. This represents the first scalable solution for cryo-CMOS qubit biasing, which achieves a 1.8× better voltage resolution with a lower DNL over a 3× larger output range than the current state-of-the-art. Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.QCD/Sebastiano LabElectronicsQuantum Circuit Architectures and Technolog
The DAC as a central actor in development policy issues: experiences over the past four years
No full textEs wäre attraktiv zu denken, so der Verfasser, dass wir uns einer Situation nähern, in der die offizielle Hilfe für die Entwicklungsländer nicht mehr gebraucht wird. Das ist aber nicht der Fall. Die Unterstützung von offiziellen Quellen wird weiterhin gebraucht, um ärmeren Ländern zu helfen, die kolossalen Probleme von Armut, Arbeitslosigkeit, Mängeln des Gesundheits- und Bildungswesens sowie der unzulänglichen Infrastruktur, zusammen mit ökologischen Herausforderungen jeder Art, zu lösen. Das Development Assistance Committee (DAC) basiert auf der Hypothese, dass die Sponsoren die Effizienz ihrer Aktivitäten erhöhen können, indem sie zusammen arbeiten und lernen. Eine realistische Betrachtungsweise impliziert die Anerkennung der Tatsache, dass die Sponsoren unabhängige Akteure sind. Es soll keine Gleichförmigkeit ihrer Aktivitäten erwartet werden. Vielfalt, innerhalb und jenseits des DAC, ist wertvoll. Aber wenn eine weniger geteilte Welt zu den Zielvorstellungen der Entwicklung gehört, ist eine solche lernende Zusammenarbeit erforderlich. Der DAC muss sich, möglicherweise ganz radikal, an die sich verändernde Realität in der Welt anpassen. Aber dies bedarf eines gemeinsamen Lernens, einer gemeinsamen Reflexion und einer Kooperation aller Beteiligten. (ICF2
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