Studies of the interrecipient allocation of aid may be categorized threefold. First, there are those that attempt to explain the observed allocation of aid. Second, there are those that seek to describe or evaluate the allocation of aid against normative criteria. Third, there are those that...

Disertacijoje nagrinėjamos tiesioginių užsienio investicijų (toliau – TUI) poveikio ekonomikos plėtrai vertinimo problemos. Kaip liudija įvairūs tyrimai, šalių ekonominės politikos, skatinančios užsienio kapitalo srautus, ne visada tinkamos: kai kuriais atvejais TUI neigiamai...

The thesis attempts to analyse the issues of assessment of the impact of foreign direct investment (hereinafter referred to as FDI) on economic development. According to the results of different research studies, countries’ economic policies stimulating the flows of foreign investment are not...

Two findings have been common in the literature on the impact of foreign aid on public sector fiscal behaviour in developing countries. The first is that aid ‘sticks’ to higher levels of recipient government expenditure, with aggregate expenditure often rising by more than the value of the...

This paper contributes to the literature on global inequality in multidimensional well-being by examining inter-country disparities in the longevity, knowledge and standard of material living components of the well-known and widely-used Human Development Index for the years 1992-2004. It differs...

Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are very different to other developing countries. Relative to GDP they have the highest levels of foreign trade and aid receipts of all developing countries. Remittances from abroad are a far more important source of income for SIDS, and some depend very...