The small states of the Asia and Pacific region face unique challenges in raising their growth potential and living … and production bases, exposure to shocks, and heavy reliance on aid. Higher fixed government costs, low access to credit … often face more limited policy tools, policies do matter and can further help build resilience and raise potential growth …

Growth, poverty reduction, and social peace are all undermined when public expenditure management and taxation are weak … and when the fiscal deficit and public debt are not managed successfully. And large-scale aid and debt relief cannot work … raise economic growth through well-chosen public investments provided that the spending is large enough. Growth itself …

The literature on the aid?growth relationship has recently been reinvigorated through the application of growth … equations that seek to explain growth as a function of institutions, policies and aid. This approach has generally led to the … conclusion that aid has contributed to growth, albeit with decreasing returns. Some studies have found that there is only a …

The New Poverty Agenda is said to represent a break with the past and to offer a rationale for aid that is built on …

global problems such as growth and debt, as well as social issues such as the predictive value of SAT scores, drug …, he considers democracy, growth, and international policy, and in the final part he examines fiscal policy, monetary …

(ODA) on a per capita basis. This paper seeks to examine the effectiveness of external aid by undertaking a panel data …

I discuss how aid can support growth in small, isolated economies. Small markets frustrate scale economies and …

Growth and poverty reduction in Africa are weakly linked. This paper argues that the reason is that Africa has failed … to create enough good jobs. Structural transformation?the relative growth of employment in high productivity sectors …

that infrastructure like roads, irrigation, electricity aid in growth and so do quality of human capital. Hence … beta convergence but not in favour of sigma convergence. Spatial econometric techniques used in the study aid in … identifying the impact of spatial neighbours on the growth of a state. Results indicate significant spatial dependence among …

This paper investigates the role of aid in mitigating the adverse effects of commodity export price shocks on growth in … the exchange rate substantially lower the adverse growth effect of shocks.  While the mitigating effect of aid is … commodity-dependent countries.  Using a large cross-country dataset, we find that negative shocks matter for short-term growth …