Past research on aid and growth is flawed because it typically examines the impact of aggregate aid on growth over a …) aid that affects growth only over the long term, if at all, such as aid to support democracy, the environment, health, or … positive, causal relationship between this 'short-impact' aid and economic growth (with diminishing returns) over a four …

different types of volatility; remittances are found to be a less volatile source of external finance than FDI and ODA that are … counter-cyclical and stabilizing, thus serving to steady the recipient economy in times of economic downturns. ODA appears to …

ODA disbursements to the LDCs and how it impacts on LDCs economic prosperity. Using both static and dynamic panel … techniques, we find that global financial crisis in OECD-EU donor countries are causes for the significant downside of ODA flows … to the LDCs. Consequently it adversely affects through the various transmission channels (e.g. ODA disbursements …

, aid for health, or humanitarian emergency aid. While other major donors reduced the share of SIA in their total ODA in the … countries. Official Development Assistance (ODA) provided by Japan since 1990 has been more closely correlated with the growth … of GDP per capita of recipient countries than that of other donors. The growth acceleration effects of short-impact aid …

impact, statistically higher than a dollar per capita spent in STD/HIV control. We do not find statistically significant …

This paper examines whether Official Development Assistance (ODA) is disproportionately allocated to countries that … apply the MDG-sensitivity criteria for aid allocation, the results indicate that ODA allocation since the Millennium … Declaration has become more MDG-sensitive – ODA is given to countries that need it most. While such trends in aid disbursements …