Regional investment aid in Poland and Czechia

Aid and Foreign Direct Investment in Vietnam

This short paper explores the complementarity between foreign aid and foreign direct investment (FDI). Recent studies on aid concluded that aid should come to an end or be reduced with a radical modification of the terms and conditions and FDI and trade should replace aid as the engine of development. In this paper, we argue that aid complements FDI and advances the efficacy of FDI in promoting...

Aid Effectiveness, Governance and Public Investment

To analyze ways in which aid can be made more effective, we develop a growth model in which aid finances infrastructure investment and pro-poor spending. We assume that the recipient countries are aid-dependent in the early phase of development and ultimately become independent. In the model, donors can accelerate the independence of a recipient from aid by investing in infrastructure. We demon...

Pacific Regional Aid Strategy

Explaining regional disparities in mortality in Poland

We aim to explain regional disparities in mortality in Poland and their changes over the years 1991-2010 taking into account mortality from selected causes of death. The list of causes of death includes causes medically amenable and those dependent on behavioral factors (smoking-related, external causes and Ischemic Heart Disease), but also ill-defined causes. Regional inequalities in mortality...

Regional variation of divorce in Poland.

Divorce rates in Polish counties in 1998 were predicted by death rates, percent urban, females/males, and outmigration.