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Aid Volatility and Poverty Traps
Agénor, Pierre-Richard - 2007
modern technology to be used. The possibility of a poverty trap induced by high aid volatility is first examined in a …
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Aid and Growth : What Does the Cross-Country Evidence Really Show?
Rajan, Raghuram G. - 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 thiscorrection, we find little robust evidence of a positive (or negative) relationship...
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Foreign Aid and State Capacity
Deserranno, Erika - 2020
We document that, in rural Uganda, the entry of foreign aid reduces government provision of similar services because the organization that delivers aid often hires the government worker, thereby reducing state capacity. Access to any public services and population well-being worsen in villages...
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Can Foreign Aid Accelerate Stabilization?
Casella, Alessandra - 1994
This paper studies the effect of foreign aid on economic stabilization. Following Alesina and Drazen (1991), we model the delay in stabilizing as the result of a distributional struggle: reforms are postponed because they are costly and each distributional faction hopes to reduce its share of...
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Information Constraints and Financial Aid Policy
Scott-Clayton, Judith - 2012
prospective students as well as their consequences, drawing upon economic theory and empirical evidence …
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Finance, inequality, and poverty : cross-country evidence
Beck, Thorsten - 2004
development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we … and poverty alleviation. We find that financial development reduces income inequality by disproportionately boosting the … poverty and income inequality. These results are robust to controlling for other country characteristics and potential reverse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522996
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Globalization and Poverty
Harrison, Ann - 2006
This essay surveys the evidence on the linkages between globalization and poverty. I focus on two measures of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466318
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Finance, Inequality, and Poverty : Cross-Country Evidence
Beck, Thorsten - 2004
development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we … and poverty alleviation. We find that financial development reduces income inequality by disproportionately boosting the … poverty and income inequality. These results are robust to controlling for other country characteristics and potential reverse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467709
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Assistance to the Poor in a Federal System
Brown, Charles - 1985
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477364
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Does the AIDS Epidemic Really Threaten Economic Growth?
Bloom, David E. - 1995
This study examines the claim that the AIDS epidemic will slow the pace of economic growth. We do this by examining the association, across fifty-one developing and industrial countries for which we were able to assemble data, between changes in the prevalence of AIDS and the rate of growth of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473734