The book “Ideas, Interests and Foreign Aid” of A. Maurits Van der Veen is the 120th title published in the Cambridge Studies in International Relations series. The series, edited by Christian Reus-Smit and Nicholas J. Wheeler, represents a joint endeavor by Cambridge University Press and the British International Studies Association (BISA). The author is a Dutch researcher who received his MA d...

Fo generation is an effective instrument for identifying intonational foreign accent (IFA), as it can be applied to determine the relevance of observed deviations in the intonation patterns produced by non-native speakers of a language, This study aims to show that the method of intonation description that is used and that also serves as the basis for F0 generation determines the form of the ob...

Why has the macroeconomic impact of foreign aid seemingly been so poor? Is there a relationship between the widespread level of corruption and other types of rent-seeking activities and concessional assistance? To answer these questions we provide a simple game-theoretic rent-seeking model. The model has a number of implications. First, under certain circumstances, an increase in government rev...

This paper investigates foreign aid‟s impact on the Fijian economy using time series data for the period 1980-2011. The empirical model is estimated using two-stage least squares and three-stage least squares to consistently assess foreign aid‟s impact. Results provide conclusive evidence that foreign aid and domestic factors are important in explaining output in Fiji.

It is notoriously difficult to measure the causal impact of foreign aid on the economy. 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, researchers are left to conduct cross-country analyses to capture the effect of aid on economic growth and other outcomes net of the recipient governments’...

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...

INTRODUCTION Educators dealing with 0-6 years old children must be individuals who are willing to take all kind of measures in order to ensure the safety of children in educational institutions and playgrounds, providing protection from diseases, and who are able to apply first aid measures in case of an accident. OBJECTIVE In this study, we aimed to determine the level of knowledge of all st...