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Does development reduce migration?
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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What are the Links between Aid Volatility and Growth?
Markandya, Anil - 2017
. Third, when examining the relationship between International Development Association aid volatility and growth, it isolates … International Development Association aid volatility due to the recipient country's performance from that due to other sources. The … Development Association aid separately, the volatility arising from the recipient country's International Development Association …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696021
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Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth is : Geographic Targeting of World Bank Projects to the Bottom 40 Percent
Öhler, Hannes - 2017
The adoption of the shared prosperity goal by the World Bank in 2013 and Sustainable Development Goal 10, on inequality …, by the United Nations in 2015 should strengthen the focus of development interventions and cooperation on the income …-country allocation patterns among the projects of development institutions. This paper proposes a new geographic targeting indicator and …
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Geopolitics, Aid, and Growth : The Impact of Un Security Council Membership on the Effectiveness of Aid
Dreher, Axel - 2017
The paper investigates the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Specifically, the paper tests whether the effect of aid on economic growth is reduced by the share of years a country served on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in the period the...
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Do Capital Inflows Boost Growth in Developing Countries? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Calderón, César - 2017
This paper examines whether domestic output growth helps attract capital inflows and, in turn, capital inflows help boost output growth in a set of 38 Sub-Saharan African countries. Using a two-step approach to address reverse causality and omitted variable issues, the paper finds that output...
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The Effect of Aid on Growth : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
Galiani, Sebastian - 2017
Development Association (IDA) has been based partly on whether or not a country is below a certain threshold of per capita income …
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Aid for Trade, Infrastructure, and the Growth Effects of Trade Reform : Issues and Implications for Caribbean Countries
Moreira, Emmanuel Pinto - 2017
This paper examines how aid-for-trade programs can help to magnify the growth benefits that developing countries can reap from trade reform and global integration, with a special emphasis on the Caribbean region. The first part discusses various rationales for trade-related aid, viewed both as a...
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