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Evaluating Alternative Approaches to Poverty Alleviation
Dorosh, Paul A. - 2008
for poverty alleviation. Although there are likely to be substantial efficiency gains from tariff reductions, these accrue …
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Foreign Aid Policy and Sources of Poverty : A Quantitative Framework
Rangazas, Peter - 2006
Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. RELATED LITERATURE -- III. THE MODEL -- IV. CROSS- COUNTRY INCOME DIFFERENCES -- V. POLICY EXPERIMENTS -- VI. THE AID COST OF REFORM -- VII. AID FAILURES -- VIII. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- A. Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Closed Economy -- B. Optimal...
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The Macroeconomics of Scaling Up Aid
Mongardini, Joannes - 2009
, significant risks that the impact on growth and poverty reduction of the additional aid inflows could fall sho …
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Development Aid and Economic Growth
Reddy, Sanjay - 2009
We analyze the growth impact of official development assistance to developing countries. Our approach is different from that of previous studies in two major ways. First, we disentangle the effects of two kinds of aid: developmental and non-developmental. Second, our specifications allow for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677788
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The Spending and Absorption of Aid in PRGF Supported Programs
Martijn, Jan Kees - 2008
This paper studies the spending and absorption of aid in PRGF-supported programs, verifies whether the use aid is programmed to be smoothed over time, and analyzes how considerations about macroeconomic stability influence the programmed use of aid. It finds that PRGF-supported programs allow...
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The Macroeconomic Impact of Scaled-up Aid
Sacerdoti, Emilio - 2009
We develop a simple macroeconomic model that assesses the effects of higher foreign aid on output growth and other macroeconomic variables, including the real exchange rate. The model is easily tractable and requires estimation of only a few basic parameters. It takes into account the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677733
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The Catalytic Impact of IMF Lending on Official Development Assistance
He, Bangyu - 2024
This paper explores the catalytic impact of IMF lending to Low-Income Countries on Official Development Assistance (ODA) during 1990-2019. It disentangles the effect on the amounts of ODA on countries’ participation in IMF programs (“extensive margin”) and the size of the IMF-supported...
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Do Workers' Remittances Promote Economic Growth?
Gapen, Michael T.; Chami, Ralph; Montiel, Peter; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
undeniable that remittances have poverty-alleviating and consumption-smoothing effects on recipient households, a key empirical …
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When is Growth Pro-Poor? Cross-Country Evidence
Kraay, Aart - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
Growth is pro-poor if the poverty measure of interest falls. This implies three potential sources of pro-poor growth …: (a) a high rate of growth of average incomes; (b) a high sensitivity of poverty to growth in average incomes; and (c) a … poverty-reducing pattern of growth in relative incomes. I empirically decompose changes in poverty in a large sample of …
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Credit Booms and Lending Standards
Dell'Ariccia, Giovanni - 2008
This paper links the current sub-prime mortgage crisis to a decline in lending standards associated with the rapid expansion of this market. We show that lending standards declined more in areas that experienced larger credit booms and house price increases. We also find that the underlying...
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