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Aid, Growth, and Jobs
Fields, Gary - 2013
absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087872
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Where Has All the Money Gone? Foreign Aid and the Quest for Growth
Chatterjee, Santanu; Giuliano, Paola; Kaya, Ilker - 2021
This paper examines fungibility as a possible explanation for the missing link between foreign aid and economic growth. The composition of aid plays a crucial role in determining the composition of government spending and, consequently, the magnitude of fungibility and its impact on growth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317224
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Should Easier Access to International Credit Replace Foreign Aid?
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2011
We examine the interaction between foreign aid and binding borrowing constraint for a recipient country. We also analyze how these two instruments affect economic growth via non-linear relationships. First of all, we develop a two-country, two-period trade-theoretic model to develop testable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119295
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Shadow Economies and Corruption All Over the World : What Do We Really Know?
Schneider, Friedrich - 2021
Estimations of the size and development of the shadow economy for 145 countries, including developing, transition and highly developed OECD economies over the period 1999 to 2003 are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (as a percent of official GDP) in 2002/03 in 96 developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317424
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Capital Account Policies, IMF Programs and Growth in Developing Regions
Bicaba, Zorobabel - 2015
This paper develops an adaptive learning model under uncertainty that examines evolution of capital account polices over time and across developing regions. In the framework, countries' past experiences and IMF programs influence policymakers' beliefs about the impact of capital account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029623
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Health Aid, Governance and Infant Mortality
Doucouliagos, Hristos - 2019
We investigate the impact of health aid on infant mortality conditional on the quality of governance in 96 recipient countries. Our analysis applies the long difference estimator and instrumental variable estimation, with aid instrumented by donor government fractionalization interacted with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870328
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Making Aid Work : Governance and Decentralization
Epstein, Gil S. - 2015
Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort into having an effect. A department may come into conflict with other departments because of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013031606
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The Costs of Favoritism : Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?
Dreher, Axel - 2010
World Bank projects and generally find that projects that are potentially politically motivated – such as those granted to … governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank … Council members with higher short-term debt, however, a negative quality rating is more likely. So we find evidence that World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146478
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Will GDP Growth Increase Happiness in Developing Countries?
Clark, Andrew - 2011
This paper asks what low-income countries can expect from growth in terms of happiness. It interprets the set of available international evidence pertaining to the relationship between income growth and subjective well-being. Consistent with the Easterlin paradox, higher income is always...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127954
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The Long-Run Effects of Mortality Decline in Developing Countries
Lehmijoki, Ulla - 2011
Since World War II, mortality has declined in the developing world. This paper examines the effects of this mortality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131422