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Tracking under-reported financial flows : China’s development finance and the aid-conflict nexus revisited
Strange, Austin M.; Parks, Bradley; Tierney, Michael J.; … - 2015
on 1,511 projects to 50 African countries. We use this database to extend previous research on aid and conflict, which … withdrawals of "traditional" aid no longer induce conflict in the presence of sufficient alternative funding from China. Our … better understand the link between aid and conflict. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010526723
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Foreign aid, poor data, and the fragility of macroeconomic inference
Roger, Lionel - 2015
The link between foreign aid and economic growth remains a controversial issue in the literature, and a large share of the disagreement could be explained by differences in the data employed. Using GDP data from three different versions of the Penn World Table and the World Development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011375893
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Aid and income : another time-series perspective
Lof, Matthijs; Mekasha, Tseday Jemaneh; Tarp, Finn - 2013
In a recent article, Nowak-Lehmann, Dreher, Herzer, Klasen, and Martínez-Zarzoso (2012) (henceforth NDHKM) conclude that foreign aid has not had a significant effect on income, based on evidence from panel data potentially covering 131 countries over the period 1960-2006. The present study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009765443
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What effect does development aid have on productivity in recipient countries? : an analysis using quantiles and thresholds
Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Groß, Elena - 2015
Development aid does not always exert the desired positive effect on economic growth in recipient countries and it is even feared that it may reduce total factor productivity (TFP) and may discourage recipient countries ́efforts. This study seeks to contribute to the research on aid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011383601
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The real exchange rate, foreign aid and macroeconomic transmission mechanisms in Tanzania and Ghana
Jusélius, Katarina; Reshid, Adbulaziz; Tarp, Finn - 2013
A recent study of 36 sub-Saharan African countries found a positive impact of aid in the absolute majority of these countries. However, for Tanzania and Ghana, two major aid recipients, aid did not seem to have been equally beneficial. This paper singles out these two countries for a more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128334
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A replication of "The long-run impact of foreign aid in 36 African countries : insights from multivariate time series analysis" (Oxford Bulletin of Statistics and Economics, 2014)
Roger, Lionel - 2019
Macroeconomic data have been shown to vary substantially between sources, especially so for low-income countries. While the impact of data revisions on inference is well documented for cross-country studies, there is no systematic analysis of the robustness of results obtained from time series...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011990915
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Foreign Aid, Terrorism and Growth : Conditional Evidence from Quantile Regression
Asongu, Simplice - 2019
In this study, we investigate the role of development assistance in reducing a hypothetically negative impact of terrorism on economic growth, using a panel of 78 developing nations with data for the period 1984-2008. The empirical evidence is based on interactive Quantile regressions. Domestic,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012897568
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Foreign aid, terrorism and growth : conditional evidence from quantile regression
Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C.; Biekpe, Nicholas - 2018
In this study, we investigate the role of development assistance in reducing a hypothetically negative impact of terrorism on economic growth, using a panel of 78 developing nations with data for the period 1984-2008. The empirical evidence is based on interactive Quantile regressions. Domestic,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998255
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Aid in modulating the impact of terrorism on FDI : no positive thresholds, no policy
Asongu, Simplice; Efobi, Uchenna Rapuluchukwu; … - 2017
We investigate how foreign aid dampens the effects of terrorism on FDI using interactive quantile regressions. The empirical evidence is based on 78 developing countries for the period 1984-2008. Bilateral and multilateral aid variables are used, while terrorism dynamics entail: domestic,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794983
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The Macroeconomic Consequences of Terrorism
Blomberg, S. Brock; Hess, Gregory D.; Orphanides, Athanasios - 2004
dataset for terrorist events, and datasets of external and internal conflict. We explore these data with cross-sectional and … that associated with either external wars or internal conflict. As well, terrorism is associated with a redirection of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276090