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Are Donor Countries Giving More or Less Aid?
Gupta, Sanjeev; Pattillo, Catherine A.; Wagh, Smita - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
The volume of foreign aid has increased during the last four decades, albeit with interruptions in certain years. Over time, the major recipients have changed: while the share of aid to Asia has diminished since the 1980s, that destined for sub-Saharan Africa has grown. There is some evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263710
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Does Foreign Aid Reduce Poverty? Empirical Evidence From Nongovernmental and Bilateral Aid
Yontcheva, Boriana; Masud, Nadia - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
This paper assesses the effectiveness of foreign aid in reducing poverty through its impact on human development indicators. We use a dataset of both bilateral aid and NGO aid flows. Our results show that NGO aid reduces infant mortality and does so more effectively than official bilateral aid....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263867
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Pity the Finance Minister; Issues in Managing a Substantial Scaling-Up of Aid Flows
Heller, Peter S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
public services; behavioral incentives; and the rate of growth of the economy. Other issues will include the appropriate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263889
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Business Cycle Fluctuations, Large Shocks, and Development Aid; New Evidence
Dabla-Norris, Era; Minoiu, Camelia; Zanna, Luis-Felipe - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
-of-trade or growth collapses-thus playing an important cushioning role. Aid outlays contract sharply during severe donor economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727796
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Volatility of Development Aid; From the Frying Pan Into the Fire?
Hamann, A. Javier; Bulir, Ales - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
The positive impact of foreign aid is limited by the erratic behavior of aid flows. The introduction in 1999 of various initiatives anchored in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) which were aimed at strengthening coordination among donors, improving the design of financial support...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769017
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Development Aid and Economic Growth; A Positive Long-Run Relation
Reddy, Sanjay; Minoiu, Camelia - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
We analyze the growth impact of official development assistance to developing countries. Our approach is different from …-developmental. Second, our specifications allow for the effect of aid on economic growth to occur over long periods. Our results indicate … that developmental aid promotes long-run growth. The effect is significant, large and robust to different specifications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528696
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Local Financial Development and the Aid-Growth Relationship
Nkusu, Mwanza; Sayek, Selin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
notion that ODA can contribute to growth in a nonlinear relationship. In this paper, we investigate a new hypothesis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005605240
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Donor Competition for Aid Impact, and Aid Fragmentation
Annen, Kurt; Moers, Luc - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
This paper shows that donors that maximize relative aid impact spread their budgets across many recipient countries in a unique Nash equilibrium, explaining aid fragmentation. This equilibrium may be inefficient even without fixed costs, and the inefficiency increases in the equality of donors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242276
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Emerging Markets in Transition: Growth Prospects and Challenges
Cubeddu, Luis M.; Culiuc, Alexander; Fayad, Ghada; Gao, Yuan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
markets (EM) are now entering a period of slower growth. In fact, growth is now lower than the post-crisis peak of 2010-11, as … growth rates seen in the last decade or whether their prospects are dimmer than thought a few years ago. This SDN we will … explore the drivers of the slowdown, how changes in external conditions that supported high growth in EMs will affect them …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878427
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Demand Patterns in France, Germany, and Belgium: Can We Explain the Differences?
Lebrun, Igor; Ruiz, Esther Pérez - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
The need to revive Euro area growth highlights the importance of the evolution of domestic and external demand in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959463