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Rejoinder to Herzer, Nowak-Lehmann, Dreher, Klasen, and Martinez-Zarzoso (2014)
Lof, Matthijs; Mekasha, Tseday Jemaneh; Tarp, Finn - In: World Development 70 (2015) C, pp. 397-399
The Herzer et al. (2014) comment on our article (Lof et al., 2014) addresses two issues. First, they propose various ways to circumvent our concerns regarding data handling in a paper by Nowak-Lehmann et al. (2012). We point out that under these new approaches the link between the empirical...
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Aid and Income: Another Time-series Perspective
Lof, Matthijs; Mekasha, Tseday Jemaneh; Tarp, Finn - In: World Development 69 (2015) C, pp. 19-30
This study provides a replication of the empirical results reported by Nowak-Lehmann, Dreher, Herzer, Klasen, and Martínez-Zarzoso (2012) (henceforth NDHKM). We uncover that NDHKM relied on a regression model which included a log transformation of variables that are not strictly positive. This...
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Public debt and economic growth: Is there a causal effect?
Panizza, Ugo; Presbitero, Andrea F. - In: Journal of Macroeconomics 41 (2014) C, pp. 21-41
This paper uses an instrumental variable approach to study whether public debt has a causal effect on economic growth … correlation between debt and growth. However, the link between debt and growth disappears once we correct for endogeneity. We … growth is important in the light of the fact that the negative correlation between debt and growth is sometimes used to …
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Does aid induce brain drain? : a panel data analysis
Ontiveros, Darwin Ugarte; Veradi, Vincenzo - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-19
Recent evidence suggests that aid induces migration. This result is nevertheless not very informative from a policy perspective since what counts in terms of welfare consequences is the composition of migration. In this paper we focus on education and study which of skilled or unskilled...
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Indonesia’s perspective on Total Official Support for Sustainable Development (TOSSD)
Delalande, Guillaume - 2020
This Working Paper presents the perspective of Indonesia on the concept of total official support for sustainable development (TOSSD), the extent of TOSSD resources provided by Indonesia and the capacity of the government to report on these resources. Indonesia broadly supported TOSSD as a...
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Cabo Verde transition finance country pilot
Morris, Rachel; Cattaneo, Olivier; Poensgen, Konstantin - 2018
A transition finance country pilot was initiated by the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) in partnership with the government of Cabo Verde. The study aims to capture the challenges facing Cabo Verde following graduation from Least Developed Country (LDC) to Lower Middle Income Category...
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Linking aid to the Sustainable Development Goals : a machine learning approach
Pincet, Arnaud; Okabe, Shu; Pawelczyk, Martin - 2019
Official Development Assistance amounted USD 146.6 billions in 2017 but do we know how much of this aid contributed to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? And to what SDG in particular? This paper present a new methodology using machine learning designed to link project-based flows to the...
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Aid Effectiveness and Limited Enforceable Conditionality
Scholl, Almuth - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 12 (2009) 2, pp. 377-391
This paper analyzes optimal foreign aid policy in a neoclassical growth framework with a conflict of interest between …
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Aid And Growth: A Comparative Study Between Sub-Saharan Africa And Asia
Ferreira, I.A.R.; Simoes, M.C.N. - In: Applied Econometrics and International Development 13 (2013) 1, pp. 113-132
This study investigates the relationship between aid and economic growth and analyses factors that might have … negative relationship between aid and growth in both regions. Mixed results were found for the influence of policy variables …
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Measuring absorptive capacity constraints to foreign aid
Feeny, Simon; de Silva, Ashton - In: Economic Modelling 29 (2012) 3, pp. 725-733
To assist with progress towards the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in developing countries, the international community is scaling-up foreign aid to record levels. Concurrently, there are concerns that additional aid will not be used effectively due to a problem of absorptive...
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