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How Do Climate Shocks Affect the Impact of FDI, ODA and Remittances on Economic Growth?

Drabo, Alassane - 2022

undermine the effect of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), official development assistance (ODA) and migrants’ remittances on … economic expansion. Based on neoclassical growth framework, the theoretical model indicates that FDI, ODA, and remittances …

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Are Foreign Aid and Remittance Inflows a Hedge Against Food Price Shocks?

Combes, Jean-Louis - 2013

This paper explores the role of foreign aid and remittance inflows in the mitigation of the effects of food price shocks. Using a large sample of developing countries and mobilising dynamic panel data specifications, the econometric results yield two important findings. First, remittance and aid...

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Imported Food Price Shocks and Socio-Political Instability : Do Fiscal Policy and Remittances Matter?

Meyimdjui, Carine - 2021

-political instability once fiscal policy and remittances have been accounted for. It focuses on import prices to reflect the vulnerability … and income per capita. On the other hand, while remittances seem to dampen the adverse effect of import food price shocks …

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Remittance Concentration and Volatility : Evidence from 72 Developing Countries

Hosny, Amr - 2020

remittances. Specifically, using data over 2010-2015 for 72 developing countries, we study the impact of (i) large remittances and … (ii) the geographic concentration of the source of remittances on economic volatilities. Results suggest that while (i …) large remittances can be stabilizing on average, (ii) high remittance concentration from source countries can aggravate …

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Are Remittances Good for Labor Markets in LICs, MICs and Fragile States?

Chami, Ralph - 2018

We present cross-country evidence on the impact of remittances on labor market outcomes.Remittances appear to have a … in size than those offoreign direct investment or offcial development aid. On the supply side, remittances reducelabor … significantly different sensitivities to remittances. On the demandside, remittances reduce overall unemployment but benefit mostly …

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Donor Competition for Aid Impact, and Aid Fragmentation

Annen, Kurt - 2012

This paper shows that donors that maximize relative aid impact spread their budgets across many recipient countries in a unique Nash equilibrium, explaining aid fragmentation. This equilibrium may be inefficient even without fixed costs, and the inefficiency increases in the equality of donors'...

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BRICs’ Philosophies for Development Financing and Their Implications for LICs

Mwase, Nkunde - 2012

Flows of development financing from the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) to low income countries (LICs) have surged in recent years. Unlike aid from traditional donors, BRICs (excluding Russia) view their financing as primarily based on the principles of South-South cooperation, focusing...

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Making Fiscal Space Happen : Managing Fiscal Policy in a World of Scaled-Up Aid

Heller, Peter - 2007

Debt relief and the scaling up of aid to low-income countries should allow for greater fiscal space for expenditure programs to create long-term growth and lower poverty rates. But designing a suitable medium-term fiscal framework that fosters a sustainable delivery of better public services and...

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Aid and Fiscal Management

Bulíř, Aleš - 2006

This paper focuses on the macroeconomic aspects of fiscal management in aid-receiving countries. Despite the declining share of aid in budgets of donor countries, aid continues to play an important role in many developing countries. The paper first discusses the implications of aid in the...

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Managing Reductions in Aid Inflows : Assessing Policy Choices in Haiti

Moldovan, Ioana - 2018

A low-income country such as Haiti that confronts an environment of diminishing aidinflows must assess tradeoffs among the available policy options: spending cuts,monetization, sales of debt, or use of foreign reserves. To provide the analytical tools forthis task, the paper draws from a set of...

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