responsiveness of employment to growth. The role of development aid in this context is problematic. Across Africa more aid went to … countries with a low employment intensity of growth. The paper proposes a new approach to aid and poverty in Africa, one that …Growth and poverty reduction in Africa are weakly linked. This paper argues that the reason is that Africa has failed …

diminishing importance. -- Macroeconomic policy ; foreign aid ; economic growth ; investment ; savings ; inflation ; exports …This paper analyses macroeconomic aspects of exit from aid-dependence. By 'exit from aid', we mean substantial and … similar and very high degrees of dependence on international aid but followed dramatically different trajectories of aid …

internationalization and economic diversification among Pakistan's private businesses. A related structural reason for these predicaments …+ and related trade diversification programs signify the most significant parts of the EU-Pakistani partnership, and mirror …

aid on exports is positive, indicating that the development strategy of the developed countries, in this case of the EU … gravity model, an estimation of the influence of the EBA preferences on exports from the ACP LDCs to the EU-15 is presented …. The model is applied to the time period 1995 to 2005 for the ACP countries' exports to the EU-15 and estimated with the …

assesses whether AfT has had a measurable direct effect on poverty in Africa. The paper finds compelling evidence that AfT has …

official development aid and Swiss exports for a panel of 50 recipient countries over the period 1974-2013. To account for … according to the relative amount of aid, respectively exports, Switzerland has exchanged with a given recipient country across … causality in all panels except for the "African" one where Granger causality seems to run only from exports to bilateral aid …

African countries. Thus, any policy initiative targeted towards poverty reduction in Africa should consider the agricultural ….5 per cent, and humanitarian 11.9 per cent. Using secondary data and country-case studies from Africa, the study … investigates why aid to agriculture has been low, and how the share of ODA to agriculture can be improved. …

recipient governments - about Chinese development finance activities in Africa that can be updated and improved through crowd … Africa. Ground-truthing generally revealed close agreement between open-source data and answers to protocol questions from …