and growth, and growth and poverty. We contribute to this literature by exploring the relationships between inequality … evidence that inequality, growth or trade liberalisation are significant determinants of cross-country variations in poverty … average growth performance, have higher inequality and higher poverty. While the empirical relationships are fragile, the …

poverty in developing countries. There is relatively little empirical evidence addressing this question directly, but a lot of … key areas: economic growth and stability; households and markets; wages and employment and government revenue. Within this … relationship between trade liberalisation and poverty, so that the picture is much less negative than is often suggested in popular …

contribution to poverty reduction. However, there is little systematic evidence of the impact of land transfers on their …

Previous work has investigated whether political instability has a negative effect on economic growth, with mixed …

them in a neoclassical growth model to examine the effect of intervention on output per worker, using cross-country data …

for foreign aid. Using an endogenous growth version of the standard overlapping generations model, we show that aid can be … an effective policy tool in spurring growth in poor countries. This model also furnishes a theoretical foundation for the …-section based conclusions about the aid-growth link, are fully consistent with the positive evidence on aid effectiveness that …

impact of debt service payments and aid flows in cross- country growth and investment regressions . Based on the regressions …-for-one changes in debt service payments and official aid flows leaves the growth rate unchanged, i.e., there seems to be no gr owth … debt service payments are accompanied by falling grant levels, there may even be a negative impact on growth. …

Theoretical predictions and empirical evidence on the impact of foreign aid and fiscal policy on growth are mixed. This … paper examines the effect of fiscal variables (government expenditure and revenue) and aid on growth using annual time …) are estimated to establish both the short- and long-run relationships between foreign aid, fiscal variables and growth of …