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The relationship between aid and economic growth of developing countries : does institutional quality and economic freedom matter?
Abate, Chala Amante - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-20
Foreign aid is an important means of finance for governments of developing countries. The current study investigates whether too much inflow of aid to developing countries is beneficial or harmful to their economy and whether institutional quality and economic freedom matters in aid–growth...
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Optimal Fiscal Spending and Reserve Accumulation Policies Under Volatile Aid
Moldovan, Ioana - 2019
This paper assesses the optimal setting of fiscal spending and foreign exchange rate intervention policies in response to volatile foreign aid, in a small open economy model that incorporates typical features of low-income countries. Within a class of policy rules, it jointly considers the...
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Aid Volatility and Structural Economic Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa : Does Finance Matter?
Kumi, Emmanuel - 2017
its volatility on sectoral growth by relying on panel dataset of 37 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries for the period … economic transformation, aid volatility deteriorates sectoral value additions with huge impact on the non — tradable sector and … a no apparent effect on the agricultural sector. However, the deleterious effect of aid volatility on structural …
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Caveat emptor : foreign aid and entrepreneurship
Ovaska, Tomi; Takashima, Ryo - In: Economies : open access journal 8 (2020) 1/4, pp. 1-13
In the last 60 years, the results of development aid have been mixed. Thus far, it has been mostly the aid recipient countries, which have been held responsible for aid’s shortcomings. That focus is misplaced, however, since the donor countries, through development aid, also export some of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168783
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Caveat emptor: Foreign aid and entrepreneurship
Ovaska, Tomi; Takashima, Ryo - In: Economies 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-13
In the last 60 years, the results of development aid have been mixed. Thus far, it has been mostly the aid recipient countries, which have been held responsible for aid's shortcomings. That focus is misplaced, however, since the donor countries, through development aid, also export some of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013199634
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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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Foreign aid, poor data, and the fragility of macroeconomic inference
Roger, Lionel - 2015
The link between foreign aid and economic growth remains a controversial issue in the literature, and a large share of the disagreement could be explained by differences in the data employed. Using GDP data from three different versions of the Penn World Table and the World Development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011375893
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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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Is favoritism a threat to Chinese aid effectiveness? : A subnational analysis of Chinese development projects
Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Hodler, Roland; Parks, Bradley - 2019
Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political purposes. The vulnerability of Chinese aid to political capture has prompted speculation that it may be economically ineffective, or even harmful. We test these claims by estimating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012025573
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Is favoritism a threat to Chinese aid effectiveness? : A subnational analysis of Chinese development projects
Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Hodler, Roland; Parks, Bradley - 2019
Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political purposes. The vulnerability of Chinese aid to political capture has prompted speculation that it may be economically ineffective, or even harmful. We test these claims by estimating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012033099