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.1 in absolute value (such as aid with economic growth) may have very large and statistically significant estimated … applied on the "�Botswana outliers driven" Burnside and Dollar [2000] article which found that aid had an effect on growth …
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in furthering economic growth and development. The implications for the donor community of the decreasing relative …
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for foreign aid. Using an endogenous growth version of the standard overlapping generations model, we show that aid can be … an effective policy tool in spurring growth in poor countries. This model also furnishes a theoretical foundation for the …-section based conclusions about the aid-growth link, are fully consistent with the positive evidence on aid effectiveness that …
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foreign aid to support economic growth? We assess these issues within the framework of a country’s legal origin. The quantity …
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The aim of this survey is to explain the real impact of aid on governance in the developing countries: including the subsahara and the MENA region during the period 1990-2004 by using the “threshold theory”. Stephen Knack proved that foreign aid had a harmful impact on the governance of the...
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Total fertility rates in Sub-Saharan Africa are nearly double that of any other region in the world. Evidence is mixed on whether providing contraceptives has an impact on fertility. I exploit exogenous, intermittent reductions in contraceptive supply in Ghana, resulting from cuts in U.S....
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quality of foreign aid matters to economic growth of least developed countries (LDCs). Quality effects are captured using … aid variable. The timing of effects between aid and growth are controlled for using both short term (annual) and long term … support the conclusion that quantity rather than quality of aid matters for economic growth of LDCs. These results are robust …
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This paper assesses the foreign aid-led growth hypothesis in a panel of West African countries using panel … and growth in the whole panel. For the individual countries, at least one test showed evidence of this long run … of causality between foreign aid and economic growth. There is evidence of unidirectional causality from foreign aid to …
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This paper presents a theoretical model for governance. Specifically, the Ramsey-Cass-Koopman's growth model has been … and foreign aid do not affect the growth rate of consumption but have level impact on consumption. Foreign aid and … governance encourage the economic growth but external debt creates a burden on the economy. Both Investment and saving are …
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education levels. One way intended to promote better living standards in this region has been through development aid. This … health levels, education and institutional quality as explanatory variables. My analysis yields some evidence, especially in … panel regressions with time-fixed effects, in support of the hypothesis that countries with poorer health and education …
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