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Foreign Aid and Economic Growth in Developing Countries : An Instrumental Variables Approach
Magesan, Arvind - 2016
There is little consensus on the capacity for foreign aid to cause economic growth in developing countries. This is due in large part to the fact that foreign aid recipients are selected by donors, confounding identification. This paper proposes an identification strategy that exploits exogenous...
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The relationship between aid and economic growth of developing countries : does institutional quality and economic freedom matter?
Abate, Chala Amante - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-20
Foreign aid is an important means of finance for governments of developing countries. The current study investigates whether too much inflow of aid to developing countries is beneficial or harmful to their economy and whether institutional quality and economic freedom matters in aid–growth...
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Natural Disasters, Foreign Aid, and Economic Growth
Jackson, Osborne - 2014
This paper explores the impact of foreign aid on economic growth using variation in aid inflows from natural disasters. Because using a country's own disaster exposure as an instrument for aid inflows violates exogeneity assumptions, I instead use the disaster exposure of a country's "aid...
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Does foreign aid promote democracy? : aid, democracy, and instability from trade
Kangoye, Thierry - 2011
instability, namely terms-of-trade instability, on the quality of democracy. We take advantage of previous empirical findings …, aggregate aid flows can potentially dampen the effects of terms-of-trade instability on the quality of democracy. An empirical … results. -- democracy ; foreign aid ; terms-of-trade instability …
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When does more aid imply less democracy? : an empirical examination
Kalyvitēs, Sarantēs; Vlachaki, Irene - In: European journal of political economy 28 (2012) 1, pp. 132-146
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Foreign aid, poor data, and the fragility of macroeconomic inference
Roger, Lionel - 2015
The link between foreign aid and economic growth remains a controversial issue in the literature, and a large share of the disagreement could be explained by differences in the data employed. Using GDP data from three different versions of the Penn World Table and the World Development...
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The effects of the president’s emergency plan for aids relief on the economies and domestic politics of focus countries
Kim, Youngwan; Whang, Taehee - In: Global economic review 46 (2017) 4, pp. 441-463
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In search for a long-run relationship between aid and growth : pitfalls and findings
Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2009
standard panel estimation techniques, such as 2-ways FE estimation, panel GMM and SUR estimation, points to some pitfalls … dynamic feasible generalized least squares estimation (DFGLS)). Estimations with DFGLS show that aid has an insignificant or a …
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Foreign aid and domestic output in the long run
Herzer, Dierk; Morrissey, Oliver - In: Review of world economics 149 (2013) 4, pp. 723-748
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Foreign aid and its effect on per-capita income (growth) in recipient countries : pitfalls and findings from a time series perspective
Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008909729