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Where has all the money gone? Foreign aid and the quest for growth
Chatterjee, Santanu; Giuliano, Paola; Kaya, Ilker - 2007
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/10010268229
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The impact of aid on growth revisited: do donor motives matter?
Kilby, Christopher; Dreher, Axel - 2009
The typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter and then testing the assumption empirically.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269176
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The costs of favoritism: is politically-driven aid less effective?
Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 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/10010269460
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Determinants of International Migration: Empirical Evidence for Migration from Developing Countries to Germany
Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael - 1998
available on overall moves (1981-1995) and asylum migration (1984-1995). The estimation results confirm the importance of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262258
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Does school autonomy make sense everywhere? Panel estimates from PISA
Hanushek, Eric A.; Link, Susanne; Wößmann, Ludger - 2011
countries. Relying on panel estimation with country fixed effects, we identify the effect of school autonomy from within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282355
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The Relationship between Income Inequality, Poverty and Globalisation
Heshmati, Almas - 2004
This paper introduces two composite indices of globalisation. The first is based on the Kearney/Foreign Policy magazine and the second is obtained from principal component analysis. They indicate the level of globalisation and show how globalisation has developed over time for different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262026
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How Does Globalization Affect the Synchronization of Business Cycles?
Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar; Terrones, Marco E. - 2003
This paper examines the impact of rising trade and financial integration on international business cycle comovement among a large group of industrial and developing countries. The results provide at best limited support for the conventional wisdom that globalization has increased the degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276292
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Shadow Economies around the World : What Do We Know?
Schneider, Friedrich G.; Klinglmair, Robert - 2004
Using various statistical procedures, estimates about the size of the shadow economy in 110 developing, transition and OECD countries are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (in percent of official GDP) over 1999-2000 in developing countries is 41%, in transition countries 38% and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276569
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Shadow economies and corruption all over the world: what do we really know?
Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2006
estimation methods are discussed and critically evaluated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276659
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Unofficial development assistance: A dynamic model of charities' donation income
Arulampalam, Wiji; Backus, Peter G.; Micklewright, John - 2011
The empirical literature on the determinants of charities donation income, distinguishing the charitable cause, is small. We extend the literature in several ways. First, we focus on overseas development charities allowing us to give more consideration to the particular characteristics of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278682