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The Burnside and Dollar (2000, AER) finding that aid raises growth in a good policy environment has had an important influence on policy and academic debates. We conduct a data gathering exercise that updates their data from 1970 -93 to 1970 -97, as well as filling in missing data for the...
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The Burnside and Dollar (2000, AER) finding that aid raises growth in a good policy environment has had an important influence on policy and academic debates. We conduct a data gathering exercise that updates their data from 1970 -93 to 1970 -97, as well as filling in missing data for the...
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The widely publicized finding that "aid promotes growth in a good policy environment" is not robust to the inclusion of new data or alternative definitions of "aid," "policy" or "growth." The idea that "aid buys growth" is on shaky ground theoretically and empirically. It doesn't help that aid...
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The Burnside and Dollar (2000) finding that aid raises growth in a good policy environment has had an important influence on policy and academic debates. We conduct a data gathering exercise that updates their data from 1970-93 to 1970-97, as well as filling in missing data for the original...
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The Burnside and Dollar (2000) finding that aid raises growth in a good policy environment has had an important influence on policy and academic debates. We conduct a data gathering exercise that updates their data from 1970-93 to 1970-97, as well as filling in missing data for the original...
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Many analysts decry the level of investment in Africa, saying it is too low. But there is no evidence, in cross …-country data or in microeconomic data from Tanzania, that private and public capital is productive in Africa. In that sense …, investment in Africa may be viewed as too high …
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August 1995 - Problems associated with Sub-Saharan Africa's slow growth are low school attainment, political … change together, the effects on growth are more than double what they would have been if one country had acted alone. Africa …. Easterly and Levine use one methodology - cross-country regressions - to account for Sub-Saharan Africa's growth performance …
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