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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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Multiple dimensions of Human Development Index and public social spending for sustainable development
Paliova, Iana; McNown, Robert F.; Nülle, Grant - 2019
Multidimensional assessment of human development is increasingly recognized as playing an important role in assessing well-being. The focus of analysis is on the indicators measuring the three dimensions of Human Development Index (HDI) - standard of living, education and health, and their...
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Post-Covid-19 recovery and resilience : leveraging reforms for growth and inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa
Hong, Gee Hee; Igan, Deniz; Lee, Do - 2021
governance, products markets, and factor accumulation. Importantly, these reforms can be implemented in the post …
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Why Do Some Countries Manage to Extract Growth From Foreign Aid?
Ruhashyankiko, Jean-François - 2005
Aid is primarily given to governments whereas the engine of sustained growth is the private sector. It is therefore illusory to investigate the impact of aid on growth without considering the impact of government interventions on the private sector. The model shows how these interventions...
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Aid and Growth : What Does the Cross-Country Evidence Really Show?
Rajan, Raghuram - 2005
We examine the effects of aid on growth-- in cross-sectional and panel data--after correcting for the bias that aid typically goes to poorer countries, or to countries after poor performance. Even after this correction, we find little robust evidence of a positive (or negative) relationship...
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What Undermines Aid's Impacton Growth?
Subramanian, Arvind - 2005
We examine one of the most important and intriguing puzzles in economics: why it is so hard to find a robust effect of aid on the long-term growth of poor countries, even those with good policies. We look for a possible offset to the beneficial effects of aid, using a methodology that exploits...
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Aid and the Dutch Disease in Low-Income Countries : Informed Diagnoses for Prudent Prognoses
Nkusu, Mwanza - 2004
This paper demonstrates that the Dutch disease need not materialize in low-income countries that can draw on their idle productive capacity to satisfy the aid-induced increased demand. Diagnoses on, and prognoses for, the Dutch disease should take into account country-specific circumstances to...
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Development Aid and Economic Growth : A Positive Long-Run Relation
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...
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Loss-of-learning and the post-Covid recovery in low-income countries
Buffie, Edward F.; Adam, Christopher S.; Zanna, Luis-Felipe - 2022
We analyze the medium-term macroeconomic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and associated lock-down measures on low-income countries. We focus on the impact over the medium-run of the degradation of health and human capital caused by the pandemic and its aftermath, exploring the trade-offs between...
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Assessing oil and non-oil GDP growth from space : an application to Yemen 2012-17
Debbich, Majdi - 2019
contraction of economic activity in Yemen throughout the ongoing conflict that erupted in 2015. Using estimated nightlights … growth for Yemen. I show that real GDP contracted by a cumulative 24 percent over 2015-17 against 50 percent according to … official figures. I also find that the impact of the conflict has been geographically uneven with economic activity contracting …
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