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Local Financial Development and the Aid-Growth Relationship
Nkusu, Mwanza; Sayek, Selin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
With official development assistance (ODA) set to rise as countries strive to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), aid effectiveness remains an important area of development policy. An increasing number of studies support the notion that ODA can contribute to growth in a nonlinear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005605240
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Business Cycle Fluctuations, Large Shocks, and Development Aid; New Evidence
Dabla-Norris, Era; Minoiu, Camelia; Zanna, Luis-Felipe - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
We examine the cyclical properties of development aid using bilateral data for 22 donors and over 100 recipients during 1970?2005. We find that bilateral aid flows are on average procyclical with respect to business cycles in donor and recipient countries. However, they become countercyclical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727796
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Development Aid and Economic Growth; A Positive Long-Run Relation
Reddy, Sanjay; Minoiu, Camelia - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 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/10008528696
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Increasing Productivity Growth in Middle Income Countries
Abdychev, Aidar; Jirasavetakul, La-Bhus Fah; Jonelis, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2015
quality of their public spending, most notably in education to minimize the skill mismatch in the labor market, reduce the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123829
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The Quality of the Recent High-Growth Episode in Sub-Saharan Africa
Martinez, Marcelo; Mlachila, Montfort - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
episodes? (ii) has this growth had an impact on socially desirable outcomes, for example, improvements in health, education and … poverty indicators? To do this, the paper first examines various aspects of the fundamentals of growth in SSAâ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123863
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Growth and Employment in the Dominican Republic; Options for a Job-Rich Growth
Abdullaev, Umidjon; Estevao, Marcello - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
market wages above fallback incomes to attract individuals to the labor force. For that, measures to improve education and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242228
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Inclusive Growth; An Application of the Social Opportunity Function to Selected African Countries
Adedeji, Olumuyiwa; Du, Huancheng; Opoku-Afari, Maxwell - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
last decade in the selected countries came with increased average opportunities in education and health; but distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242365
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Middle East Transitions: A Long, Hard Road
Yusuf, Shahid - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
Since the onset of the Arab Spring, economic uncertainty in Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen (Arab Countries in Transition, ACTs) has slowed already sluggish growth; worsened unemployment, particularly of youth; undermined business confidence, affected tourist arrivals, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142081
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Mauritius The Drivers of Growth—Can the Past be Extended?
Svirydzenka, Katsiaryna; Petri, Martin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
savings rates; (ii) improving the efficiency of social spending and public enterprise reforms; (iii) investment in education … and education reforms; (iii) labor market reforms; and (iv) further measures to reduce bottlenecks and increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142138
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China; Does Government Health and Education Spending Boost Consumption?
Barnett, Steven; Brooks, Ray - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
saving and increased consumption. The main findings are that spending on health, but not education, had an impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008561091