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This paper examines whether foreign aid in education has a significant effect on growth. We take into consideration the … and higher education, and run separate regressions for low income and middle income countries. We find that the effect of … flows as well as the heterogeneity of recipient countries when analyzing the effect of aid on growth …
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We explore whether foreign aid affects developing countries' creditworthiness, as proxied by the Institutional Investor's measure of country credit risk. Based on a simple model of international borrowing and lending, we develop the hypothesis that current aid reduces the likelihood of future...
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Does official aid pave the road for private foreign investment or does it suffocate private initiative by diverting resources towards unproductive activities? In this paper we explore this question using data for a large number of developing and emerging economies. Controlling for countries'...
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There is little consensus on the capacity for foreign aid to cause economic growth in developing countries. This is due … Human Rights Treaties at the UN to identify an average causal effect of aid on growth. Our approach allows for heterogeneous … effects of aid on growth across recipients for unobservable reasons, and we thus identify a Local Average Treatment Effect …
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the political ideology of both governments along the left-right spectrum in augmented models on the economic growth …
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, health, or education (likely to have no relationship to growth over four years); and (3) aid that plausibly could stimulate …Past research on aid and growth is flawed because it typically examines the impact of aggregate aid on growth over a … short period, usually four years, while significant portions of aid are unlikely to affect growth in such a brief time. We …
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This paper tries to establish who carries the burden in supporting reproductive health and AIDS programs worldwide. The 1994 International Conference of Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo established goals for the expansion of assistance in matters of reproductive health and AIDS. This...
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education (likely to have no relationship to growth over four years); and (3) aid that plausibly could stimulate growth in four …Past research on aid and growth is flawed because it typically examines the impact of aggregate aid on growth over a … short period, usually four years, while significant portions of aid are unlikely to affect growth in such a brief time. We …
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Does official aid pave the road for private foreign investment or does it suffocate private initiative by diverting resources towards unproductive activities? In this paper we explore this question using data for a large number of developing and emerging economies. Controlling for countries'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014075306
about the evolution and dynamics of output growth? Largely, no. Second, the existence and magnitude of output externalities …
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