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Macroeconomic determinants of exit from aid-dependence
Hailu, Degol; Shiferaw, Admasu - 2012
This paper analyses macroeconomic aspects of exit from aid-dependence. By 'exit from aid', we mean substantial and enduring decline over time in Official Development Assistance (ODA) as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The relevant macroeconomic variables are identified by systematically...
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Gearing macroeconomic policies to manage large inflows of ODA: The implications for HIV/AIDS programmes
Chowdhury, Anis; McKinley, Terry - 2007
This paper examines how macroeconomic policies can be managed to accommodate a large inflow of foreign aid to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic and still maintain macroeconomic stability. Because of the daunting scale of this epidemic, funds need to be disbursed urgently in order to contain its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284560
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Macroeconomic determinants of exit from aid-dependence
Hailu, Degol; Shiferaw, Admasu - 2012
This paper analyses macroeconomic aspects of exit from aid-dependence. By 'exit from aid', we mean substantial and enduring decline over time in Official Development Assistance (ODA) as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The relevant macroeconomic variables are identified by systematically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009502923
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Aid Volatility and Dutch Disease : Is There a Role for Macroeconomic Policies?
Prati, Alessandro - 2014
This paper studies how macroeconomic policies can help offset two unintended and undesirable features of foreign aid: its volatility and Dutch disease. We present evidence that aid volatility augments trade balance volatility and that foreign aid, with the important exception of years of adverse...
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The political economy of development assistance : peril to government quality dynamics in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
This paper assesses the effectiveness of foreign aid in improving government institutions in 52 African countries using updated data (1996-2010). Findings suggest development assistance deteriorates government quality dynamics of corruption-control, political-stability, rule of law, regulation...
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The political economy dimensions of macroeconomic management of aid in Ghana
Osei, Robert Darko; Asem, Freda; Domfe, George - 2013
This paper contributes to the debate on aid effectiveness by looking at the 'how' of aid effectiveness. In other words it provides an assessment of whether aid only filled a financing gap or whether it, in addition, helped influence the political economy in a way that engendered growth. Ghana...
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Fifty Economic Fallacies Exposed
Wood, Geoffrey - 2006
Since 1988, Professor Geoffrey Wood of the Sir John Cass Business School, has written a regular column in the IEA's journal, Economic Affairs, in which he exposes popular economic fallacies. Fifty Economic Fallacies Exposed collects fifty of these columns and exposes numerous common fallacies....
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Economic Performance Over the Conflict Cycle
Staines, Nicholas - 2006
conflict cycle has probably declined. The stance of macroeconomic policy was an important factor while the underlying quot;conflict … provide support during conflict, but more inclined after conflict. These findings are buttressed by the post-conflict … findings have implications for policy and aid priorities after conflict …
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Losing on the home front? : battlefield casualties, media, and public support for foreign interventions
Fetzer, Thiemo; Souza, Pedro C. L.; Vanden Eynde, Oliver; … - 2021
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The concept of political instability in economic research
Jannils, Łukasz - In: International journal of management and economics 57 (2021) 3, pp. 268-284
This article reviews the use of the concept of political instability in economic research, the importance of which has been growing in recent years due to its potentially profound economic consequences. The article explores this concept by working through the definitions, dimensions, and methods...
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