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Congo
, 2013
"... This study has been prepared within the UNU-WIDER project ‘ReCom—Research and Communication on Foreign Aid’, directed by Tony Addison and Finn Tarp. UNU-WIDER gratefully acknowledges specific programme contributions from the governments of Denmark (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Danida) and Sweden (Sw ..."
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This study has been prepared within the UNU-WIDER project ‘ReCom—Research and Communication on Foreign Aid’, directed by Tony Addison and Finn Tarp. UNU-WIDER gratefully acknowledges specific programme contributions from the governments of Denmark (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Danida) and Sweden
Aid and environment in Ghana
, 2013
"... and Communication’, directed by Tony Addison and Finn Tarp. UNU-WIDER gratefully acknowledges specific programme contributions from the governments of Denmark (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Danida) and Sweden (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency—Sida) for ReCom. UNU-WIDER also gratef ..."
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and Communication’, directed by Tony Addison and Finn Tarp. UNU-WIDER gratefully acknowledges specific programme contributions from the governments of Denmark (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Danida) and Sweden (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency—Sida) for ReCom. UNU-WIDER also
*Reader in International Development and Co-Director, King’s International Development
, 2013
"... and Communication’, directed by Tony Addison and Finn Tarp. UNU-WIDER gratefully acknowledges specific programme contributions from the governments of Denmark (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Danida) and Sweden (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency—Sida) for ReCom. UNU-WIDER also gratef ..."
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and Communication’, directed by Tony Addison and Finn Tarp. UNU-WIDER gratefully acknowledges specific programme contributions from the governments of Denmark (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Danida) and Sweden (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency—Sida) for ReCom. UNU-WIDER also
Weak Expansions: A Distinctive Feature of the Business Cycle in Latin America and the Caribbean by
, 2013
"... Santiago, Chile, October 29–30, 2012. We wish to thank the participants for the useful comments received during the presentation and discussion of the paper, and, in particular, Cecilia Vera for very valuable suggestions for improving the paper’s arguments and coherence. We are also grateful to John ..."
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to John Rand and Finn Tarp (University of Copenhagen) for sharing the computer codes for the Bry-Boschan algorithm procedure in Mat Lab. The Levy Economics Institute Working Paper Collection presents research in progress by Levy Institute scholars and conference participants. The purpose of the series
Children’s Time Allocation, Heterogeneity and Simultaneous Decisions
, 2009
"... This paper uses a longitudinal survey from the Philippines with detailed information on family time use to analyse the effects of economic factors on children’s time allocation. This is done while taking account of censoring, unobservable family heterogeneity and simultaneous decisions with respect ..."
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heterogeneity leads to substantial changes in the estimated effects of many of the important explanatory variables. I would like to thank Robert E. Evenson for access to the data set and answering numerous questions about it and Mark Pitt, John Strauss and Finn Tarp for comments. This paper is a substantially
alternative interpretation of the evidence
"... The present paper by Finn Tarp is, in his own words, mainly a review of issues that have been in focus in the foreign aid literature, including articles penned by himself and collaborators. The paper is long and rich, and I will restrict my comments to the section (four) on the aid-growth nexus wher ..."
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The present paper by Finn Tarp is, in his own words, mainly a review of issues that have been in focus in the foreign aid literature, including articles penned by himself and collaborators. The paper is long and rich, and I will restrict my comments to the section (four) on the aid-growth nexus
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"... It is notoriously difficult to measure the causal impact of foreign aid on the econ-omy. The “micro-macro paradox ” (Paul Mosley 1986) renders it impossible to add up the effects of individual aid projects, since foreign aid is fungible. Thus, research-ers are left to conduct cross-country analyses ..."
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and Finn Tarp 2001) can be criticized for one of three broad reasons: it is highly collinear with aid itself (e.g., lagged aid, lagged aid squared); it stands a good chance of not being truly exogenous to the economy
TEACHING CONSUMER REDRESS THROUGH COMPLAINT LETTER WRITING
"... Consumer educators stress that voicing consumer complaints is an important part of effective consumer perfonnance (Bonnice & Bannister, 1990; Gannan, 1991). Researchers have found that businesses want to hear from dissatisfied customers because unhappy customers who take no action may be left wi ..."
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with satisfied customers, dissatisfied customers tell twice as many people about their buying experience (TARP, 1986). Yet, most consumers who complain to a company are seeking a tangible result--not just a chance to complain. Increased dissatisfaction results when the consumer expects complaint resolution
