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This paper analyses macroeconomic aspects of exit from aid-dependence. By 'exit from aid', we mean substantial and … similar and very high degrees of dependence on international aid but followed dramatically different trajectories of aid …. We find that the likelihood of exit from aid increases significantly with macroeconomic stability in the sense of …
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diminishing importance. -- Macroeconomic policy ; foreign aid ; economic growth ; investment ; savings ; inflation ; exports …This paper analyses macroeconomic aspects of exit from aid-dependence. By 'exit from aid', we mean substantial and … similar and very high degrees of dependence on international aid but followed dramatically different trajectories of aid …
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In recent decades, Africa has received a large share of official development assistance compared to other regions of … the world. Using AidData for 2000-13, this paper examines the effects of aid to productive sectors on manufacturing growth … in Africa. Econometric results show that increased assistance to these sectors is associated with an increase in growth …
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of the country. The model illustrates that growth in highly perishable agricultural exports, not domestic production of …
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market on trade growth in the regions of Africa and Asia. An exclusive comparison of trade performance of the two regions … novelty, I extend the data specification of Auboin and Engemann (2014) to the interaction of export diversification and …
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) development strategy and Aid for Trade (AfT ) interventions in influencing the extent of structural change in production. Based on …
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The typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of … aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter …
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destabilizing. We measure aid volatility by several methods and assess procyclicality of aid with respect to exports, thus departing …. The stabilizing/destabilizing nature of aid is measured by the difference in the volatility of exports and the volatility … of the aid plus exports flows. Then, in order to take into account the diversity of shocks to which aid can respond, we …
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This paper surveys recent research on aid and growth. It also provides an overview of research on inter-recipient aid … allocation. The overall focus of the paper is on the relevance of these issues for poverty-efficient aid, defined as a pattern of … inter-recipient aid allocation which maximises poverty reduction. It identifies a range of povertyreducing criteria on which …
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