Building on a Kaleckian-structuralist macroeconomic growth model this paper examines the impact of the interaction … between labor market gender equality and social reproduction (SR) or care provisioning, on economic growth across U.S. states … relationship between women's labor force participation rate (WLFPR) and state's per-capita growth rate across these regimes. The …

tightened further. Global growth has been moving in the opposite direction: it has declined sharply since the beginning of the … developments, the risk of stagflation-a combination of high inflation and sluggish growth-has risen. The recovery from the … expectations, elevated financial vulnerabilities, and weakening growth fundamentals. …

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of public expenditures on economic growth within the analytical framework of … the specific categories of public expenditures and economic growth, captured in human capital formation, defense … economic growth is much higher than that of the other macro variables. Data for the study was drawn from the International …

The empirical literature has failed to reach consensus on the impact of aid on development outcomes based on aggregate … cross-country analysis. This study follows the current trend in the literature on the effectiveness of aid to examine the … impact of local-level aid on health outcomes. We combine data on World Bank's geo-located aid projects with three rounds of …

Why would bilateral donors intermediate aid through a multilateral and not extend aid directly? This paper suggests a … regressions with bilateral-pair, fixed effects to model aid allocation decisions. The results confirm that politics is important … for bilateral donors but also that aid fragmentation and strategic behavior affect aid allocation. Multilaterals solve …

Does official aid pave the road for private foreign investment or does it suffocate private initiative by diverting … marginal effect of aid on private foreign investment is close to zero. Surprisingly, however, the effect is strictly positive …

We explore whether foreign aid affects developing countries' creditworthiness, as proxied by the Institutional Investor … current aid reduces the likelihood of future default. We then test this hypothesis, using a data set that covers a large … number of developing countries in the 1980s and 1990s. While the size of the effect differs across types of aid and country …

our results show that annual average real GDP growth rate of around 8 percent would be enough to meet the poverty target …