Is Aid for Developing Countries Destroying their Environment?

Flooding Countries and Destroying Dams

In many applications of terrain analysis, pits or local minima are considered artifacts that must be removed before the terrain can be used. Most of the existing methods for local minima removal work only for raster terrains. In this paper we consider algorithms to remove local minima from polyhedral terrains, by modifying the heights of the vertices. To limit the changes introduced to the terr...

Health aid and governance in developing countries.

Despite anecdotal evidence that the quality of governance in recipient countries affects the allocation of international health aid, there is no quantitative evidence on the magnitude of this effect, or on which dimensions of governance influence donor decisions. We measure health-aid flows over 1995-2006 for 109 aid recipients, matching aid data with measures of different dimensions of governa...

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

Valuing the Environment in Developing Countries

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Planning prosthetic and orthotic programmes to aid developing countries.

At present there is a profusion of agencies and governments which send missions of prosthetics and orthotics experts into developing countries. Included are the U N , the World Rehabil i tat ion Fund , the Wor ld Heal th Organization, the Social and Rehabili tat ion Service of H E W , Public Hea l th Service, certain religious organ­ izations, H O P E ship, and perhaps others. These agencies se...