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Caveat emptor : foreign aid and entrepreneurship

Ovaska, Tomi; Takashima, Ryo - In: Economies : open access journal 8 (2020) 1/4, pp. 1-13

In the last 60 years, the results of development aid have been mixed. Thus far, it has been mostly the aid recipient countries, which have been held responsible for aid’s shortcomings. That focus is misplaced, however, since the donor countries, through development aid, also export some of their...

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Aid and sectoral labour productivity

Selaya, Pablo (contributor); Thiele, Rainer (contributor) - 2008

The paper examines empirically the proposition that aid to poor countries is detrimental for external competitiveness, giving rise to Dutch disease type effects. At the aggregate level, aid is found to have a positive effect on growth of labour productivity. A sectoral decomposition shows that...

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Aid and growth accelerations : vulnerability matters

Guillaumont, Patrick; Wagner, Laurent - 2012

This working paper has been prepared within the UNU-WIDER project 'Foreign Aid': Research and This paper confronts three conundrums. First, does the relationship between aid and growth fade over time when aid is successful? Second, why are aid inflows neglected in the literature on 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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Consequences of aid volatility for macroeconomic management and aid effectiveness

Hudson, John - 2012

This paper reviews both the literature on aid volatility and also adds to that literature. In general, the focus of … this literature has been on the volatility of overall aid, while we focus more on the volatility of the individual aid … commitments and disbursements, particularly the latter. Key aid sectors in explaining total aid volatility relate to debt …

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The heterogeneous impact of sectoral foreign aid inflows on sectoral growth : SUR evidence from selected Sub-Saharan African and MENA countries

Aljonaid, Nadeem Abdulmalik Abdulrahman; Qin, Fengming; … - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 3, pp. 1-45

A great deal of the foreign aid-growth literature finds that the net effect of aggregate aid on total growth appears to be insignificant. This study argues that this aid-growth nexus can be better explained by testing the variation responses for each of growth sectors to their corresponding...

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Does foreign aid help or hinder the institutional quality of the recipient country? : new evidence from the OIC countries

Chowdhury, Mohammad Ashraful Ferdous; Mohamed Ariff; … - In: The Singapore economic review 67 (2022) 1, pp. 189-218

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Foreign aid effectiveness : evidence from panel data analysis

Kabir, M. Adnan - In: Global journal of emerging market economies 12 (2020) 3, pp. 283-302

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Can foreign aid motivate institutional reform? : an evaluation of the HIPC Initiative

Schlosky, Minh Tam; Young, Andrew T. - In: Journal of entrepreneurship and public policy : JEPP 6 (2017) 2, pp. 242-258

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Do development minister characteristics affect aid giving?

Fuchs, Andreas; Richert, Katharina - 2015 - This version: November 2015

Over 300 government members have had the main responsibility for international development cooperation in 23 member countries of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee since the organization started reporting detailed Official Development Assistance (ODA) data in 1967. Understanding their...

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