Helping The Poor: The Aid Dilemma

Helping the Poor with Selfish Intentions: Trade, Foreign Aid and Growth

Departing from explanations that involve either altruistic or political motivations of donors, we link a donor’s willingness to give aid to economic incentives and returns. Since targeted aid might increase the returns from trade and FDI linkages for donors, there exists a non-altruistic basis for helping poor countries. We explore this idea by developing a two-country dynamic strategic interac...

Aid, Catastrophes and the Samaritan’s Dilemma

This paper discusses the impact of foreign aid on the recipient country’s preparedness against natural disasters. The theoretical model shows that foreign aid can have two opposing effects on a country’s level of mitigating activities. In order to test the theoretical propositions we analyse the effect of foreign aid dependence on ex-ante riskmanagement activity proxied by the death toll from m...

prediction and diagnosis of poor ovarian response: the dilemma

failure to respond adequately to standard protocols and to recruit adequate follicles is called ‘poor response’. this results in decreased oocyte production, cycle cancellation and, overall, is associated with a significantly diminished probability of pregnancy. it has been shown that ovarian reserve tests, such as basal fsh, antimullarian hormone (amh), inhibin b, basal estradiol, antral folli...

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