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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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What role does China play in Africa''s development? What drives China''s increasing economic involvement in the … continent? This paper attempts to provide a quantified assessment of China''s multifaceted influence as market, donor, financer … government policies, markets for each other''s exports, Africa''s demand for infrastructure, and differences in China''s approach …
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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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Although the rest of the world had waited a long time for China to open up, feelings were mixed when it actually did … (WTO), many of its trading partners are increasingly concerned that China’s competition in the world goods and capital … markets may adversely affect their own growth prospects. This paper examines the implications of China’s WTO accession for …
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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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Capacity development is one of the IMF's core activities. Its impact is monitored through a Results-Based Management framework. Using for the first time the resulting dataset, the paper investigates how the likelihood of achieving targeted outcomes correlates with macroeconomic conditions and...
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This study focuses on identifying the main factors that influenced country-specific and aggregate demand for IMF concessional financing between 1986 and 2018 and makes within-period and out-of-period forecasts. We find that the external debt level, inflation, and real effective exchange rate are...
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