Despite record economic growth in the decade that followed the fall of the Taliban regime, poverty remained stubbornly …

Controversy over the aggregate impact of foreign aid has focused on reduced form estimates of the aid-growth link. The … causal chain, through which aid affects developmental outcomes including growth, has received much less attention. We address … impacts on growth through key intermediate outcomes. A coherent picture emerges: aid stimulates growth and reduces poverty …

Africa has come a long way since the economic turmoil of the 1980s, the decade of "structural adjustment". Growth has …

Controversy over the aggregate impact of foreign aid has focused on reduced form estimates of the aid-growth link. The … causal chain, through which aid affects developmental outcomes including growth, has received much less attention. We address … impacts on growth through key intermediate outcomes. A coherent picture emerges: aid stimulates growth and reduces poverty …

Non-Resident Fellow at CGD, tests various elements of this narrative using growth regressions. He contends that the data … do not support the view that poverty traps of zero growth or takeoffs are a widespread occurrence among low …-income countries. He argues that the divergence in growth trajectories tends to be associated with the existence of democratic …