productive capacity to satisfy the aid-induced increased demand. Diagnoses on, and prognoses for, the Dutch disease should take …

The diversion of development aid to the recipient's military may be one explanation why aid is often found to be … ineffective in promoting economic growth and development. Previous studies have not derived the causal effects of development aid … on military expenditure. Using a new instrumental variable strategy, we examine whether bilateral development aid …

The diversion of development aid to the recipient’s military may be one explanation why aid is often found to be … ineffective in promoting economic growth and development. Previous studies have not derived the causal effects of development aid … on military expenditure. Using a new instrumental variable strategy, we examine whether bilateral development aid …

Using a new instrumental variable strategy, we examine whether bilateral development aid increases military expenditure … receiving aid. The dataset includes new data on military expenditure for 124 recipient countries over the 1975−2012 period. When … accounting for outliers, our results do not suggest that development aid affects military expenditure in the full sample. However …

A windfall of natural resource revenue (or foreign aid) faces government with choices of how to manage public debt …

A windfall of natural resource revenue (or foreign aid) faces government with choices of how to manage public debt …

Linkages between foreign aid, terrorism and natural resource (fuel and iron ore) exports are investigated in this study … employed as empirical strategy. Three main foreign aid variables are used for the analysis, namely: bilateral aid, multilateral … aid and total aid. The corresponding terrorism variables employed are: domestic terrorism, transnational terrorism …

This paper considers the effects of humanitarian aid on economic welfare through a demographic transition channel. We … monetary humanitarian aid on economic welfare. We conclude that if parents strongly value children, giving monetary aid … utility by in-kind aid, which also lowers fertility and augments economic growth …