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Foreign Aid, Poor Data, and the Fragility of Macroeconomic Inference

Roger, Lionel - 2016

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...

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Do capital inflows hinder competitiveness? The real exchange rate in Ethiopia

Martins, Pedro M. G. - 2010

This paper investigates the determinants of the real exchange rate (RER) in Ethiopia. In particular, it assesses whether large capital inflows (e.g. foreign aid and remittances) have an impact on the RER. This empirical exercise tries to improve the current literature in a number of ways: (i)...

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Fiscal dynamics in Ethiopia: The cointegrated VAR model with quarterly data

Martins, Pedro M. G. - 2010

This paper uses the cointegrated vector autoregressive (CVAR) model to assess the dynamic relationship between foreign aid inflows, public expenditure, revenue and domestic borrowing in Ethiopia. It departs from the existing literature by using a unique quarterly fiscal dataset (1993-2008) and...

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Aid absorption and spending in Africa: A panel cointegration approach

Martins, Pedro M. G. - 2010

This paper focuses on the macroeconomic management of large inflows of foreign aid. It investigates the extent to which African countries have coordinated fiscal and macroeconomic responses to aid surges. In practice, we construct a panel dataset to investigate the level of aid 'absorption' and...

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25 years of aid allocation practice: Comparing donors and eras

Clist, Paul - 2009

Focusing on seven bilateral donors over a 25 year period, the paper answers 4 questions related to aid allocation practice. Questions one and two examine allocation differences between donors and time periods. Questions three and four relate to changes in poverty and policy selectivity. To...

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Effect of conflict on dietary energy supply: Evidence from Cote d'Ivoire

Dabalen, Andrew L.; Paul, Saumik - 2012

In this paper we estimate the causal effects of conflict on dietary energy supply in Côte d'Ivoire. To identify the … true impact of conflict, we use prewar and post-war household data bracketing the conflict period and the spatial variation … in the prevalence of conflict between the North and South regions. Our second identification strategy uses the specific …

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No household left behind : Afghanistan targeting the ultra poor impact evaluation

Bedoya, Guadalupe; Coville, Aidan; Haushofer, Johannes; … - 2019

increase in many fragile and conflict-affected areas where half of the extreme poor are expected to reside by 2030. These areas …-push" interventions can dramatically reduce poverty in fragile and conflict-affected regions …

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Evolution of poor food access over the course of the conflict in the Republic of Yemen

Tandon, Sharad; Vishwanath, Tara - 2019

The Republic of Yemen has undergone a profound transformation following the escalation of conflict in March 2015. There … poor welfare outcomes contrasts with evidence from other conflict settings, and further contrasts with the rationale …

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Conflict and poverty : Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020 background paper

Mueller, Hannes; Techasunthornwat, Chanon - 2020

This paper analyzes the relationship between poverty and conflict in the macro and regional data, including a detailed … that conflict has on health and expectations. Based on this evidence, it develops a statistical framework to track the … cumulative long-term impact that armed conflict has on poverty, which the paper calls conflict debt. The data confirm that …

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Examining the robustness of competing explanations of slow growth in African countries

Burger, Ronelle; du Plessis, Stan - 2006

This research challenges previous findings regarding the robustness of the African growth dummy by expanding the list of variables to include those suggested by Easterly and Levine (1998) and Sachs and Warner (1997b). Using the Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates approach, this paper...

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