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Clemens, Michael A. - 2014

development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …

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Where has all the money gone? : Foreign aid and the quest for growth

Chatterjee, Santanu (contributor); … - 2007

This paper examines fungibility as a possible explanation for the "missing link" between foreign aid and economic growth. The composition of aid plays a crucial role in determining the composition of government spending and, consequently, the magnitude of fungibility and its impact on growth....

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The impact of aid on growth revisited : do donor motives matter?

Kilby, Christopher; Dreher, Axel - 2009

The typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter and then testing the assumption empirically. -- Aid ;...

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Aid, growth, and jobs

Fields, Gary S. - 2013

Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of …

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Project aid and firm performance

Marchesi, Silvia; Masi, Tania; Paul, Saumik - 2021

This paper evaluates the effect of development project aid from the World Bank and China on firms' sales growth, using …

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The association of economic growth, foreign aid, foreign direct investment and gross capital formation in Indonesia : evidence from the Toda-Yamamoto approach

Sijabat, Rosdiana - In: Economies : open access journal 10 (2022) 4, pp. 1-22

-way causality between ODA and GDP as well as between FDI and GDP. ODA has promoted the expansion of economic and development …

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Economic growth, foreign direct investments and official development assistance nexus : panel ARDL approach

Wehncke, Francois Cornelius; Marozva, Godfrey; Makoni, … - In: Economies : open access journal 11 (2023) 1, pp. 1-15

direct investment to the economic development, economic growth, and prosperity of Africa. This paper aims to examine the long …-term and causal relationship between foreign direct investment, official development assistance, and economic growth for 20 … development assistance and economic growth, and between economic growth and foreign direct investment, as well as a cointegrating …

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The capability threshold : re-examining the definition of the middle class in an unequal developing country

Burger, Ronelle; McAravey, Camren; Berg, Servaas van der - 2015

In a polarised and highly unequal country such as South Africa, it is unlikely that a definition of the middle class that is based on an income threshold will adequately capture the political and social meanings of being middle class. We therefore propose a multi-dimensional definition, rooted...

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Informality and long-run growth

Docquier, Frédéric; Müller, Tobias; Naval, Joaquín - 2014

path. Hence, we examine the effectiveness of different development policies to exit the poverty trap. Our numerical …

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Entrepreneurial recovery from COVID-19: decentralization, democratization, demand, distribution, and demography

Naudé, Wim - 2020

Entrepreneurship, as reflected in the start-up of new firms, the growth and market exit of existing firms, and the ow of venture capital, has been severely curtailed by the lockdown and social distancing measures taken by governments around the world in the fight against COVID-19. This paper,...

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