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Does aid fragmentation affect tax revenue dynamics in developing countries? : observations with new tax data
Compaoré, Ali; Tagem, Abrams M. E. - 2022
There exists a burgeoning empirical literature on the impact of aid fragmentation on development outcomes in aid-receiving countries, with it being widely recognized that aid fragmentation is deleterious. This paper adds to the existing literature by estimating the impact of aid fragmentation on...
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The return to foreign aid
Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Hansen, Henrik - 2015
We investigate the marginal productivity of investment across countries. The aim is to estimate the return on investments financed by foreign aid and by domestic resource mobilization, using aggregate data. Both returns are expected to vary across countries and time. Consequently we develop a...
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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...
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Consequences of aid volatility for macroeconomic management and aid effectiveness
Hudson, John - 2012
This paper reviews both the literature on aid volatility and also adds to that literature. In general, the focus of … this literature has been on the volatility of overall aid, while we focus more on the volatility of the individual aid … commitments and disbursements, particularly the latter. Key aid sectors in explaining total aid volatility relate to debt …
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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...
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Does foreign aid harm political institutions?
Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - 2015
The notion that foreign aid harms the institutions of recipient governments remains prevalent. We combine new disaggregated aid data and various metrics of political institutions to re-examine this relationship. Long-run cross-section and alternative dynamic panel estimators show a small...
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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...
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The impact of adult civic education programmes in developing democracies
Finkel, Steven E. - 2013
Can democracy be taught? Are individuals more likely to embrace democratic values, to learn basic knowledge about political processes, and to engage the political process more effectively as a result of their exposure to donor-sponsored civic education programmes in emerging democracies? After...
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What is the aggregate economic rate of return to foreign aid?
Arndt, Channing; Jones, Sam; Tarp, Finn - 2014
Does foreign aid promote aggregate economic growth? In contrast to widespread perceptions, academic studies of this question have been rapidly converging towards a positive answer. We employ a simulation approach to (i) validate the coherence of recent empirics and (ii) calculate plausible...
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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...
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