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A meta-analysis of aid effectiveness : revisiting the evidence
Mekasha, Tseday Jemaneh; Tarp, Finn - 2018
As research on the empirical link between aid and growth continues to grow, it is time to revisit the accumulated evidence on aid effectiveness. This paper does this by building on the meta-analysis in our previous work. The availability of more data enables us to conduct a sub-group analysis by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011821438
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Gesture politics or real commitment? : gender inequality and the allocation of aid
Dreher, Axel; Gehring, Kai; Klasen, Stephan - 2013
health affect the allocation of aid in those sectors and overall, while greater female political representation appears to be … 'rewarded' with higher aid flows; employment gaps do not seem to affect the allocation of aid. Taking account of substantive and … statistical significance, overall, there is modest evidence that gender gaps affect the allocation of aid in total and for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009784721
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The impact of foreign aid on economic growth in ECOWAS countries : a simultaneous-equation model
Adamu, Patricia A. - 2013
This paper investigates the impact of foreign aid on economic growth in member countries of the Economic Community of West African States using panel data for 1990-2009 and a three equation simultaneous-equations model. The effect of foreign aid on economic growth among these ECOWAS countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010225334
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Another look at foreign aid
Ranis, Gustav - 2013
The foreign aid landscape has undergone a paradigm shift in the last few decades, with changes in the behaviour of 'traditional' donors and a new focus on selectivity in aid disbursement, as well as 'new' donors and South-South co-operation playing an increasingly important role. Amidst these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010194863
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Aid, growth, and development : have we come full circle?
Arndt, Channing; Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - 2010
The micro-macro paradox has been revived. Despite broadly positive evaluations at the micro and meso-levels, recent literature doubts the ability of foreign aid to foster economic growth and development. This paper assesses the aid-growth literature and, taking inspiration from the program...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008663071
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Aid and income : another time-series perspective
Lof, Matthijs; Mekasha, Tseday Jemaneh; Tarp, Finn - 2013
In a recent article, Nowak-Lehmann, Dreher, Herzer, Klasen, and Martínez-Zarzoso (2012) (henceforth NDHKM) conclude that foreign aid has not had a significant effect on income, based on evidence from panel data potentially covering 131 countries over the period 1960-2006. The present study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009765443
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Global poverty, aid, and middle-income countries : are the country classifications moribund or is global poverty in the process of 'nationalizing'?
Sumner, Andrew - 2013
classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary … first is that the thresholds used to classify countries by the World Bank and extensively used by aid agencies, albeit with … domestic resources allocation becomes an ever more significant variable. This paper discusses both of these perspectives in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752790
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Foreign capital inflow and economic growth in Cameroon
Fambon, Samuel - 2013
The purpose of this paper is to capture the impact of foreign capital inflows (which include foreign aid and foreign direct investment) on economic growth in Cameroon. Using the autoregressive distributive lag approach to cointegration and time-series data for the period 1980 - 2008, the results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010200368
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Aid, political business cycles and growth in Africa
Chiripanhura, Blessing M.; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2014
This paper develops a model of opportunistic behaviour in which an incumbent government resort to expansionary fiscal and/or monetary stimuli to foster economic growth and thus, maximize the probability of re-election. Using a panel dataset of 51 African countries covering the period 1980 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010425074
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Aid and growth accelerations : vulnerability matters
Guillaumont, Patrick; Wagner, Laurent - 2012
This working paper has been prepared within the UNU-WIDER project 'Foreign Aid': Research and This paper confronts three conundrums. First, does the relationship between aid and growth fade over time when aid is successful? Second, why are aid inflows neglected in the literature on growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516705