This study investigates the relationship between aid and economic growth and analyses factors that might have influenced this relationship in two major aid recipients regions, Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia that started from similar levels of real GDP per capita but had different patterns of...

Several studies emphasize the importance of the general environment in recipient countries for effectiveness of development aid. Another more recent strand of the literature considers whether the receipt of aid affects the happiness of developing countries. Since corruption, an indicator of the...

In this paper we review the literature on finance-growth nexus and investigate the causality between financial development and economic growth in Turkey for the period 1975-2004. The empirical investigation is carried out in a vector autoregression (VAR) framework based on the theory of...

We analyse the impact of industry on non industrial production, as well as its effect on wages and employment in 6 OECD countries: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States for the period 1960-2012. Our approach to macro-econometric modelling have into account both...

Recent theoretical literature suggests that aid, geography, and resource endowments affect diversification of exports in Africa. The paper examines the validity of these popular views using a System-GMM methodology and panel data for African countries. The evidence suggests that aid, the quality...

The aim of this paper is to re-examine the relationship between foreign aid and the real exchange rate, using recent econometric methods developed for non-stationary dynamic panels, and an estimator that imposes a weaker homogeneity assumption on the slope coefficients. The investigation shows...

This paper has addressed the nature of the casual relationship between national savings and foreign capital in Pakistan over the period 1960 -2010 using the Granger no-causality test based on Toda and Yamamoto (1995) procedure. The results show that no causality is found from foreign capital to...

In this paper I investigate the effects of recent debt relief initiatives on resource flows to low-income developing countries. For countries that are part of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative, I find that good macroeconomic management does not influence the level of resource...

Recent theoretical literature suggests that aid, geography, and resource endowments affect diversification of exports in Africa. The paper examines the validity of these popular views using a System-GMM methodology and panel data for African countries. The evidence suggests that aid, the quality...

Foreign aid is used by recipient economies to ease the otherwise existing resource constraints. One of the areas to which aid has been directed is the health sector. To name a few, health-aid is used to provide basic health infrastructure, basic nutrition, infectious disease control, health...