Doubts have always remained in the claim of foreign aid contributing towards the economic growth of the recipients. This paper, therefore, aims to study the effects of aid on the Tanzanian economic growth, the largest aid recipient in average, through Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL)...

A recent study of 36 sub-Saharan African countries found a positive impact of aid in the absolute majority of these countries. However, for Tanzania and Ghana, two major aid recipients, aid did not seem to have been equally beneficial. This paper singles out these two countries for a more...