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This working paper has been prepared within the UNU-WIDER project 'Foreign Aid': Research and This paper confronts three conundrums. First, does the relationship between aid and growth fade over time when aid is successful? Second, why are aid inflows neglected in the literature on growth...
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Is aid subject to diminishing returns? This paper addresses this issue, thereby contributing to the literature on effective allocation of aid. We test the hypothesis of diminishing returns to aid. Using an appropriate econometric technique for detecting thresholds, we find that aid only becomes...
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-dependent panel data model accounting in particular for program participation selection and the potential conditionality of the output … ; panel sample selection models ; conditional pooling …
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The three main financial inflows to developing countries have largely increased during the last two decades, despite the large debate in the literature regarding their effects on economic growth which is not yet clear-cut. An emerging literature investigates the dependence of their effects on...
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This paper provides new empirical findings on the aid-growth relation. We find evidence for considerable asymmetry in the aid-growth relation; i.e., aid cuts have a large negative impact on economic activity, while increasing aid may be ineffective in promoting growth. Development aid thus...
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) in developing countries. The study uses panel data from 138 developing countries during the period 1980-2018. The … regions. We have carried out panel unit-root tests and panel cointegration tests before estimating the specified models using … both Panel Least Squares (Panel LS) and Panel Fully Modified Least Squares (FMOLS) methods. In addition, panel Granger …
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89 countries spanning the period 1979 to 2000 during which AIDS has spread across the world. We control for a variety of … extended (for human capital) Solow model as our baseline empirical specification, we consider cross-sectional and panel … cross-sectional, and panel estimations. In addition, using data on age groups we find that only the AIDS coefficient …
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