Harper skirts transparency on foreign aid.

Why We Want Everyone to Be Like Us

We Americans believe that there is basically one rational way to live: ours. There is one legitimate path of development, which leads toward democracy, transparency, and a competitive market system. Our dealings with the rest of the world are based on this assumption. We reinforce the point by dispatching economists, foreign aid workers, and religious missionaries to teach the world how to live...

More Dollars than Sense: Refining Our Knowledge of Development Finance Using AidData

Please Using Summary. — In this introductory essay to the special issue, we introduce a new dataset of foreign assistance, AidData, that covers more bilateral and multilateral donors and more types of aid than existing datasets while also improving project-level information about the purposes and activities funded by aid. We utilize that data to provide a brief overview of important trends in f...

Crowding out Effect of Foreign Aid in Selected Developing Countries: Panel Data Evidence

Method for Detection of Foreign Matters Contained in Dryed Nori (Seaweed) based on Optical Property

Optical property, such as spectral reflectance, bidirectional reflectance distribution functions and polarization characteristics of dried seaweeds is clarified together with an attempt for transparent foreign matter detection considering optical property of dried seaweeds, such as spectral transparency, bidirectional reflectance and transparency as well as polarimetric properties. Through expe...

Modelling information and hedging: the exporting firm

The paper examines the economic role of modelling information on the decision problem of an exporting firm under exchange rate risk and hedging. Information is described in terms of market transparency, i.e., a publicly observable signal conveys more information about the random foreign exchange rate. We analyze the interaction between market transparency and the ex ante expected utility of the...