Explores the relationship between external funding & publication of political science research. The distribution of published articles in eight leading journals is examined & content identified by research subfields & methodological approaches. The source of funding, National Science Foundation (NSF) grants or other sources, was also identified. The results are analyzed for implications about biases of funding agencies & journals across epistemological approaches & research subfields. The major finding was that external funding does not support most of the published research in the major journals. 13 Tables, 2 Appendixes, 5 References. L. Collins
This study examined the effect of recurring expenditure financed by external grants on sustainable economic development of sub - Saharan Africa Countries. This paper asked the participation of external grants on the recurring expenditure as one of the source of funds, separately from international finance perspective; the mechanism of domestic did not talk about. This paper filled this gap in literature by determining the recurring expenditure financed by external grants. The study adopted a time series research design where by secondary data were used. The population of the study was external grants and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from 1988/89 - 2019/20 financial years (Annual Data). The sample size of the research was 32 observations. Purposive sampling was used to choose the Tanzania as a study area of the research; data were collected from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).The parameters tests such as test for co integration and unit root test was used to investigate co-integrating vectors. After that, Autoregressive Distributive Lag Model (ARDL) was carrying out to find the results. The finding shows that, recurring expenditure financed by external grants influence sustainable economic development; with P- Value of 0.002. At the same time as inflation rate looks to be insignificant with P- Value of 0.719. The study recommends in order encouraging sustainable economic development, government must proceed to promote the relationship with nations by giving development programs which are consistent with supporting programs. additionally, the research predict the requirement for introducing strong policies that will assist and promote strong collaboration with donor nations and spend more in substantial speculation and utilization expenditure in order to increase the level of production as which will affect the sustainable economic development.
Decentralization is expected to lead to greater efficiency in the allocation of public resources, as subnational governments are said to have better information than central government about the needs for and requirements of public services in their jurisdictions, especially in agricultural and rural areas, where information about rural residents' priorities is more limited. This purported benefit of decentralization rests strongly on the assumption that local governments can in fact exercise fiscal discretion to allocate resources. However, local government budgets are commonly dominated by intergovernmental and external transfers, which are often tied to specific investments, and these at times may not match local government priorities. Thus, local governments' fiscal autonomy may ultimately depend on their ability to generate sufficient revenue internally. Panel data on district governments' public finances in Ghana are used to examine the impact of the flow and size of external transfers on districts' internally generated revenues. The evidence suggests that external transfers crowd out local governments' own revenues, which could potentially result in the loss of equity and efficiency gains associated with decentralization. This result points to the need for a careful review of Ghana's fiscal transfer mechanisms in light of the central government's goal of encouraging districts to contribute to rural development through effective local public spending and public service provision. ; Non-PR ; IFPRI1; GRP32 ; DSGD
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Volume 40, Issue 5, p. 1054-1067
The thesis examines the impacts of external assistance on the economic performance of the country for the period 1960/61 –1999/00. The analysis makes use of the Johansen maximum likelihood estimation procedure estimating five equations to identify the independent effect of foreign assistance on investment and/or growth, saving, government tax revenue, government tax expenditure and real exchange rate. Accordingly, it is found that external assistance negatively affected the investment rate and hence the growth rate of the economy. The paper further investigates these unexpected negative relationships between foreign inflows and economic growth. The insignificant effect of external grant on domestic saving, negative impact of external grant on government consumption and the 'Dutch Disease' effect of both foreign grant and loan is responsible for the negative impact of foreign assistance on economic growth of the economy.
In 2001 preliminary discussions took place between Professor B.R.R.N. Mendis, Chairman of the UGC of Sri Lanka, and Professor G. Dhanarajan, President of COL, about the status of external degree provision in Sri Lankan universities. As a result, COL was requested to provide technical advice to the UGC on what measures could be taken to improve the quality and efficiency of external degree provision in Sri Lanka through the use of Open and Distance Learning as part of a larger government initiative to increase access to quality higher education in the country. It was agreed that COL would provide an expert consultant to investigate the current situation of external degrees provision in Sri Lankan universities and to report to the UGC so that they might identify where intervention on their part would be the most useful. After production of the consultant's report, COL would organize and run a retreat/workshop for the Vice-Chancellors of the relevant universities and their chief administrators of external studies to discuss key issues pertaining to off-campus education and to consider organizational/institutional changes needed to provide an improved service to students
The RDA Europe 4.0 Cascading Grants programme was established in support of multiple project objectives, including to build and strengthen the RDA community, democratise access to funding opportunities in the field of data infrastructures and interoperability, and bring forward the RDA legacy in Europe. The grants programme totalled 751.000 euros, distributed via open calls for Early Career Researchers (ECRs), Experts, Ambassadors, Adoption projects and European National Nodes. Cascading Grants allow the integration of third parties, i.e. "non project partners", into a project without being parties of the Grant Agreement themselves, thus enabling a wider scope of action and outreach. Through this mechanism, 87 grants were awarded to externals, including 56 travel grants. More than 30 third party contracts with institutions and individual persons were concluded. This report reflects on the procedures and processes of the grants management as established from the beginning of the project. At first, the set up of the Grants Committee and pool of evaluators are explained. Next, the call process and the related steps are described. The different grant types are presented in detail and the legal and financial management is explained. Summing up, this document evaluates experiences, workflows and best practices and concludes with recommendations for the cascading grants scheme. The aim of the Cascading Grant mechanism was to encourage European participation in RDA and strengthen the community structures. The impact of this work is detailed in the related deliverables D2.3 Final RDA Results, Adoption & Take-Up report, D2.4 Final Impact report on support for EU participation in RDA and D3.5 Coordination of National Nodes Framework
The new missions of African universities—coping with massification, becoming research intensive, and attaining world-class status—require tremendous amounts of funding. Most African governments have chosen to provide their public universities autonomy to secure foreign grants from national governments, universities in developed countries, the international donor community, and philanthropic organizations. However, the impact of these initiatives is difficult to measure, given that most universities lack proper institutional evaluation mechanisms to record and track the outcomes of such projects/programs after they are completed. This article seeks to promote institutional evaluation as a critical tool for decision-making on performance improvement in order to assure better value for money in African universities.
