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This paper surveys the economic literature on the scaling-up of aid to Africa. It provides a checklist of issues that need to be considered when preparing a long term macroeconomic projection for a country involving the assumption of a significant increase in aid. Such scaling-up scenarios are...
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This paper empirically investigates the impact of foreign aid on economic growth and poverty alleviation in India using … the long-run. Results further confirm that aid does not have significant impact on poverty alleviation both in the … poverty in India during the study period …
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This paper provides evidence on the effects of the size and the composition of public spending on long-term growth and inequality. An estimated baseline convergence model captures the long-term effect of human capital and total investment on potential output for a panel of OECD countries. The...
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In this paper we analyse the effects of all sources of the accumulation of nonfinancial debt (household, corporate as well as government) on economic growth in ten euro-area countries during the 1980-2015 period. To this end, we make use of three models (a baseline, an asymmetric and a threshold...
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Whether public debt spurs economic growth is an unsettled issue in both theoretical and empirical grounds. The issue has attracted lots of attention to economists and policymakers in recent times. This article addresses the debt–growth issue in the case of a small emerging south Asian country...
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This paper examines how the output growths of 37 African countries' are affected by the output growth of the world. The connection between the world output growth and that of each African country is represented by a block recursive VAR model allowing that world output growth affects each African...
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This research study summarises the effects of corruption in Brazil and its effects on the economic growth of the … economy and therefore the economic growth of a country: the human capita, GDP per capita and the corruption; it is possible to … theoretical analysis of how corruption may affect an economy of a country, and using them alongside with the data from the …
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Trade promotes economic growth, alleviates poverty and helps countries reach their development goals. However … the role of trade in development, but also helped secure increased resources."Trade for Growth and Poverty Reduction: How … Aid for Trade Can Help" explains how Aid for Trade can foster economic growth and reduce poverty, and why it is an …
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Most developing and underdeveloped countries beside Sudan suffer from the low levels of income in addition to the low savings that are result from the lack of sophisticated savings channels. Hence, the investment depends on the individual's abilities on self savings, where the investment is...
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