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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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Does development reduce migration?

Clemens, Michael A. - 2014

The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those countries, an idea that captivates policymakers in international aid and trade diplomacy. A lengthy literature and recent data suggest something quite different: that over the...

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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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US Presidential Party switches are mirrored in global maternal mortality

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2021

We provide estimates of impacts on maternal mortality of swings in US aid for family planning and maternal health driven by switches in implementation of the Global Gag Rule (GGR) with US Presidential Party. The GGR is a pro-life policy that prohibits aid to overseas non-governmental...

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Food aid and violent conflict : a review of literature

Koppenberg, Maximilian; Mishra, Ashok K.; Hirsch, Stefan - 2023

We decompose the relationship between food aid and conflict into the channels through which food aid can affect conflict. We address questions of methodological choice and estimation techniques for empirical studies. Our review of the empirical evidence on the effect of food aid on conflict...

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Shaken, not stunted? : global evidence on natural disasters, child growth and recovery

Cruzatti, John; Rieger, Matthias - 2024

A substantial share of the world's children reside in disaster-prone areas and suffer from stunted growth. Child growth …

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The political U : new evidence on democracy and income

Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Frigerio, Marco - 2022

This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960-2018, we show that the causal relationship between political and economic development is U-shaped: "intermediate" political regimes significantly lead to inferior economic...

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Relationship of gender differences in preferences to economic development and gender equality

Falk, Armin; Hermle, Johannes - 2018

Preferences - concerning time, risk and social interactions - systematically shape human behavior, and contribute to differential economic and social outcomes between the genders. Here, we present a global investigation of gender differences in six fundamental preferences. Our data consist of...

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Mass refugee inflow and long-run prosperity : lessons from the Greek population resettlement

Murard, Elie; Sakalli, Seyhun Orcan - 2018

a few months. We build a novel geocoded dataset locating settlements of refugees across the universe of more than four … find that localities with a greater share of refugees in 1923 have today higher earnings, higher levels of household wealth … refugees, which fostered early industrialization and economic growth. …

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Facing displacement and a global pandemic : evidence from a fragile state

Di Maio, Michele; Fasani, Francesco; Sciabolazza, … - 2022

We use novel survey data to assess the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the Libyan population. In our sample, 9.5% of respondents report that a household member has been infected by COVID-19, while 24.7% of them have suffered economic damages and 14.6% have experienced negative health effects due...

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