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 …

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 …

This paper surveys 50 years of empirical research on the macroeconomic impact of aid, looking mainly at studies … examining the link between aid and growth. It argues that studies dating until the late 1990s produced either contradictory or … inconclusive results. Aid either worked, or it didn’t, according to this research. The paper then highlights a major shift in the …

The link between foreign aid and economic growth remains a controversial issue in the literature, and a large share of …)'s (JMT) conclusions about long-run aid effectiveness. The analysis is carried out in two stages. First, I apply the same …

that foreign aid has not had a significant effect on income, based on evidence from panel data potentially covering 131 …-integrated regressions is not a suitable empirical strategy for estimating the causal effect of aid on income. Given the nature of the … endogeneity problem in the aid-growth relationship. Evidence from a panel VAR model estimated on the dataset of NDHKM, suggests a …

Using data from 1988 to 2007, we examine to what extent bilateral aid flows of an individual donor to a country depend … on aid flows from all other bilateral and multilateral donors to that country. We thereby want to assess to what extent … donor coordination, free-riding, selectivity, specialization, and common donor motivations drive bilateral aid allocation as …

Recent evidence suggests that aid induces migration. This result is nevertheless not very informative from a policy … education and study which of skilled or unskilled migration is more sensitive to aid. More specifically we investigate the … possible channels through which aid might affect self-selection among international emigrants and find that aid induces …

Does foreign aid promote aggregate economic growth? In contrast to widespread perceptions, academic studies of this … of recent empirics and (ii) calculate plausible ranges for the rate of return to aid. Our results highlight the long …-run nature of aid investments and indicate the return to aid falls in ranges commonly accepted for public investments. We find no …