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Colonialism, Inequality, and Long-Run Paths of Development

Engerman, Stanley L.; Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - 2021

Over the last few years, colonialism, especially as pursued by Europeans, has enjoyed a revival in interest among both scholars and the general public. Although a number of new accounts cast colonial empires in a more favorable light than has generally been customary, others contend that...

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Aid Volatility and Poverty Traps

Agénor, Pierre-Richard - 2013

for the modern technology to be used. The possibility of a poverty trap induced by high aid volatility is first examined …

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Barriers to Health and the Poverty Trap

Wang, Yin-Chi - 2014

Why have some poor countries been able to take off while others are still stuck in the poverty trap? To address this … conditions of 41 countries that are still in the poverty trap, (iii) a group of trapped economies with richer institutional data … in health. This paper thereby advances our understanding of the role played by barriers to health in the poverty trap …

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Assistance to the Poor in a Federal System

Brown, Charles; Oates, Wallace E. - 2021

This paper explores the roles of different levels of government in assisting the poor. Using a model with utility interdependence, the paper presents some theoretical results on how levels of poor relief vary with the extent of mobility of the poor under both centralized and decentralized...

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Aid and Growth : What Does the Cross-Country Evidence Really Show?

Rajan, Raghuram Govind; Subramanian, Arvind - 2021

We examine the effects of aid on growth in cross-sectional and panel data—after correcting for the possible bias that poorer (or stronger) growth may draw aid contributions to recipient countries. Even after this correction, we find little robust evidence of a positive (or negative)...

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Helping the Poor to Help Themselves : Debt Relief or Aid

Arslanalp, Serkan; Henry, Peter Blair - 2021

Debt relief is unlikely to stimulate investment and growth in the world's highly indebted poor countries (HIPCs). This is because the HIPCs do not suffer from debt overhang. The principal obstacle to investment and growth in the world's poorest countries is a lack of basic economic institutions...

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Do Corrupt Governments Receive Less Foreign Aid?

Alesina, Alberto; Weder, Beatrice - 2021

Critics of foreign aid programs argue that these funds often support corrupt governments and inefficient bureaucracies. Supporters argue that foreign aid can be used to reward good governments. This paper documents that there is no evidence that less corrupt governments receive more foreign aid....

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New Data, New Doubts : A Comment on Burnside and Dollar'S "Aid, Policies, and Growth" (2000)

Easterly, William; Levine, Ross; Roodman, David Malin - 2021

The Burnside and Dollar (2000, AER) finding that aid raises growth in a good policy environment has had an important influence on policy and academic debates. We conduct a data gathering exercise that updates their data from 1970 -93 to 1970 -97, as well as filling in missing data for the...

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The Illusion of Sustainability

Kremer, Michael; Miguel, Edward - 2021

focusing on the underlying causes of poverty. A recent manifestation is the move towards sustainability,' which stresses …

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The Determinants of Food Aid Provisions to Africa and the Developing World

Nunn, Nathan - 2014

We examine the supply-side and demand-side determinants of global bilateral food aid shipments between 1971 and 2008. First, we find that domestic food production in developing countries is negatively correlated with subsequent food aid receipts, suggesting that food aid receipt is partly driven...

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