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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 …. We find that the likelihood of exit from aid increases significantly with macroeconomic stability in the sense of …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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assesses whether AfT has had a measurable direct effect on poverty in Africa. The paper finds compelling evidence that AfT has …
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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 …
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This paper argues that official development assistance (foreign aid) is partly responsible for the lack of structural … change in Africa. Africa's development partners have devoted too few resources and too little attention to two critical … regulatory reforms. A new aid strategy, one that catalyses private investment in high value added sectors, is needed. Support for …
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, especially in Africa, the role of foreign aid in the future should be distinctly different. While aid will be required to … continue to fill the 'savings gap' in some small countries and land-locked countries, in most other countries aid can play a … the other 'BRIC', sovereign wealth funds and infrastructure funds. There are already examples of aid playing such a …
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