We examine the effects of aid on growth-- in cross-sectional and panel data--after correcting for the bias that aid … evidence of a positive (or negative) relationship between aid inflows into a country and its economic growth. We also find no …: what aspects of aid offset what ought to be the indisputable growth enhancing effects of resource transfers? Thus, our …

Some natural resources-oil and minerals in particular-exert a negative and nonlinear impact on growth via their … could fundamentally improve the quality of public institutions and, as a result, durably raise long-run growth performance …