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Young, Andrew T.; Higgins, Matthew J.; Levy, Daniel C. - 2013 - Last Revision: April 2013

We use U.S. county-level data to estimate convergence rates for 22 individual states. We find significant heterogeneity …. E.g., the California estimate is 19.9 percent and the New York estimate is 3.3 percent. Convergence rates are … essentially uncorrelated with income levels. -- Economic Growth ; Conditional Convergence ; Heterogeneity ; U.S. County Level Data …

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Federal, state, and local governments : evaluating their separate roles in US growth

Higgins, Matthew J. (contributor); … - 2008

We use US county level data (3,058 observations) from 1970 to 1998 to explore the relationship between economic growth and the extent of government employment at three levels: federal, state and local. We find that increases in federal, state and local government employments are all negatively...

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Reflections

Ranis, Gustav - 1997

This paper examines the causes of Taiwan's exceptional economic performance, focusing on the influence of organizational and policy choices and how Taiwan's example differs from those of more typical less-developed countries. After briefly citing cultural factors as proposed by his late...

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Human development and economic growth

Ranis, Gustav - 2004

Recent literature has contrasted Human Development, described as the ultimate goal of the development process, with economic growth, described as an imperfect proxy for more general welfare, or as a means toward enhanced human development. This debate has broadened the definitions and goals of...

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Geopolitics, aid and growth

Dreher, Axel; Eichenauer, Vera; Gehring, Kai - 2014

We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Specifically, we test whether the effect of aid on economic growth is reduced by the share of years a country has served on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in the period the aid has...

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Aid and growth. New evidence using an excludable instrument

Dreher, Axel; Langlotz, Sarah - 2017

We use an excludable instrument to test the effect of bilateral foreign aid on economic growth in a sample of 96 recipient countries over the 1974-2009 period. We interact donor government fractionalization with a recipient country’s probability of receiving aid. The results show that...

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Successful transition towards a virtuous cycle of human development and economic growth : country studies

Ranis, Gustav; Stewart, Frances - 2007

This paper explores the two-way links between Economic Growth and Human Development by examining the performance of some countries which have been successful in both dimensions and a few which have not. The specific aim is to examine the historical experience of six countries in order to...

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Government ideology in donor and recipient countries : does political proximity matter for the effectiveness of aid?

Dreher, Axel; Minasyan, Anna; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2013

Political proximity between donor and recipient governments may impair the effectiveness of aid by encouraging favoritism. By contrast, political misalignment between donor and recipient governments may render aid less effective by adding to transaction costs and giving rise to incentive...

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Geopolitics, aid and growth

Dreher, Axel; Eichenauer, Vera; Gehring, Kai - 2013

We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Donor countries ́political motives might reduce the effectiveness of conditionality, channel aid to inferior projects or affect the way aid is spent in other ways, reduce the aid bureaucracyś...

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In search for a long-run relationship between aid and growth : pitfalls and findings

Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2009

In this paper we investigate the relationship between per capita income and foreign aid for a panel of 131 (alternatively 52) recipient countries over the period 1960 to 2006 by employing annual data and 5-year averages. Reliance on standard panel estimation techniques, such as 2-ways FE...

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