This paper studies the effect of firm and country reputation on exports when buyers cannot observe quality prior to … trade policies. First, an export subsidy increases the steady-state average quality of exports and welfare in a LQE, but …

of target products to these countries' exports, education appears unimportant for developing comparative advantage in …

The study examines the official bilateral donors’ current aid practice for private sector development (PSD). In … particular, it reviews the donors’ major instruments and channels for aid delivery and the extent to which official flows have … firms. The paper concludes that despite the prominent position occupied by NGOs in aid delivery, there is still a pertinent …

International donors usually have particular goals they want to achieve with their foreign aid, for example, poverty … alleviation. In the international aid story lobbying by potential recipient groups attempting to capture the donor's support play …

probability of obtaining funds; or, the better the applicant's governance, the greater are its gains. Moreover, the maximum aid a … competition for aid, and the outcome for the quality of governance. …

underlying aid. The first is when we have several principals with conflicting objectives. Any one principal cannot offer high … with ensuring aid effectiveness may concern both principal and agent; the optimal solution to which requires difficult to …

A substantial amount of aid to developing countries is given to the government, or goes through the budget, meaning it …-country empirical studies on the effects of aid on government spending neglect time series properties, cross-country (recipient …) heterogeneity and the potential for cross-country correlation. This paper examines the impact of foreign aid and taxes on government …

The main argument of this paper is that there is considerable heterogeneity in the way aid can shape tax performance in … Group estimator to a dataset comprising 84 developing countries from 1980 to 2013. The following results ensued: aid and … taxes comprise an equilibrium relation, with a positive long-run association between aid and taxes; causality runs from aid …

A substantial amount of aid to developing countries is given to the government, or goes through the budget, meaning it … studies on the effects of aid on government spending neglect variable time-series properties, cross-country (recipient …) heterogeneity, and the potential for cross-country correlation. This paper examines the impact of foreign aid and taxes on …