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 …

. Analysis was based on a dataset of Africa's fish exports to the European Union between 2007 and 2012, which contains about 63 … variables. In addition, we find EU standards are indeed non-protectionist in spite of the high level of African fish exports … transfer in science and technology to the Africa could help improve their compliance rate to EU standards and ensure increased …

the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) on exports from Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) to the United States. The AGOA … impact of AGOA on African exports, particularly if the elasticity of substitution of the differentiated African exports is … African exports to the US. Among other things, these results suggest that the more distinctive are African exports, the higher …

We explore whether foreign aid affects developing countries' creditworthiness, as proxied by the Institutional Investor … current aid reduces the likelihood of future default. We then test this hypothesis, using a data set that covers a large … number of developing countries in the 1980s and 1990s. While the size of the effect differs across types of aid and country …

Does official aid pave the road for private foreign investment or does it suffocate private initiative by diverting … marginal effect of aid on private foreign investment is close to zero. Surprisingly, however, the effect is strictly positive …

This paper employs a cointegrated vector autoregressive model to assess the growth effect of aid in Uganda over the … period 1972-2008. Results show that aid in Uganda has had both direct and indirect beneficial association with growth; that … of policy, it is crucial to strengthen fiscal response to aid receipts and ensure aid funded projects are closely …

We examine aid-induced Dutch Disease - after controlling for the effects of remittances and FDI flows - in the context … aggregated annual data over the period 1980-2009. Aid causes real exchange rate appreciation in the case of Morocco, especially … either country. We discuss the policy implications of the main results: aid and other types of foreign exchange inflow have …