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Does Foreign Aid Reduce Poverty? : Empirical Evidence From Nongovernmental and Bilateral Aid

Yontcheva, Boriana - 2005

This paper assesses the effectiveness of foreign aid in reducing poverty through its impact on human development …

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Does NGO Aid Go to the Poor? : Empirical Evidence From Europe

Nancy, Gilles - 2006

for, poverty consistently appears as the main worldwide determinant of NGO aid allocation. NGOs do not respond to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402984

On the Viability of Conditional Assistance Programs

Mayer, Wolfgang - 2005

Economic adjustment and reform programs, including those supported by international financial institutions (IFIs), must cope with informational asymmetries and special interest politics. This presents a particularly serious issue when IFIs make structural economic reforms a condition for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400737

Local Financial Development and the Aid-Growth Relationship

Nkusu, Mwanza - 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...

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Foreign Aid Policy and Sources of Poverty : A Quantitative Framework

Mourmouras, Alex - 2006

The econometric literature has been unable to establish a robust association between foreign aid and growth and poverty … countries. The model quantifies three sources of poverty: (i) lack of access to international capital, (ii) low schooling and … high fertility (a poverty trap), and (iii) antigrowth domestic fiscal policy. We analyze policies designed to address each …

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Government spending effects in low-income countries

Shen, Wenyi; Yang, Shu-Chun S.; Zanna, Luis-Felipe - 2015

Despite the voluminous literature on fiscal policy, very few papers focus on low-income countries (LICs). This paper develops a new-Keynesian small open economy model to show, analytically and through simulations, that some of the prevalent features of LICs-different types of financing including...

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Do IMF-supported programs catalyze donor assistance to low-income countries?

Bal Gündüz, Yasemin; Crystallin, Masyita - 2014

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BRICs’ philosophies for development financing and their implications for LICs

Mwase, Nkunde; Yang, Yongzheng - 2012

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Has Chinese aid benefited recipient countries? : evidence from a meta-regression analysis

Mandon, Pierre; Woldemichael, Martha Tesfaye - 2022

This paper employs a meta-regression analysis of 473 estimates from 15 studies to take stock of the empirical literature on Chinese aid effectiveness. After accommodating publication selection bias, we find that, on average, Beijing's foreign assistance has had a positive impact on economic and...

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How do climate shocks affect the impact of FDI, ODA and remittances on economic growth?

Drabo, Alassane - 2021

The three main financial inflows to developing countries have largely increased during the last two decades, despite the large debate in the literature regarding their effects on economic growth which is not yet clear-cut. An emerging literature investigates the dependence of their effects on...

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