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Aid and growth accelerations: An alternative approach to assess the effectiveness of aid
Dovern, Jonas; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2006
It continues to be heavily disputed whether foreign aid promotes economic growth in developing countries. In most cross-country regressions, aid is considered effective only if it shifts recipient countries to a significantly higher and sustainable growth path. We apply an alternative approach...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273173
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Aid and growth : new evidence using an excludable instrument
Dreher, Axel; Langlotz, Sarah - 2015
We use an excludable instrument to test the effect of foreign aid on economic growth in a sample of 96 recipient countries over the 1974-2009 period. We interact donor government fractionalization with a recipient country's probability of receiving aid. The results show that fractionalization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343084
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Geopolitics, aid and growth
Dreher, Axel; Eichenauer, Vera; Gehring, Kai - 2013
We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Donor countries ́political motives might reduce the effectiveness of conditionality, channel aid to inferior projects or affect the way aid is spent in other ways, reduce the aid bureaucracyś...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764394
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Donors’ openness to immigration and the effectiveness of foreign aid
Minasyan, Anna; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2015
We argue that donors could improve the effectiveness of foreign aid by pursuing complementary and coherent non-aid policies. In particular, we hypothesize that aid from donors that are open to immigration has stronger growth effects than aid from closed donors. We estimate the aid-growth nexus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467104
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Geopolitics, aid and growth
Dreher, Axel; Eichenauer, Vera; Gehring, Kai - 2014
We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Specifically, we test whether the effect of aid on economic growth is reduced by the share of years a country has served on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in the period the aid has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010425577
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Government ideology in donor and recipient countries : does political proximity matter for the effectiveness of aid?
Dreher, Axel; Minasyan, Anna; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2013
Political proximity between donor and recipient governments may impair the effectiveness of aid by encouraging favoritism. By contrast, political misalignment between donor and recipient governments may render aid less effective by adding to transaction costs and giving rise to incentive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128857
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Aid and growth. New evidence using an excludable instrument
Dreher, Axel; Langlotz, Sarah - 2017
We use an excludable instrument to test the effect of bilateral foreign aid on economic growth in a sample of 96 recipient countries over the 1974-2009 period. We interact donor government fractionalization with a recipient country’s probability of receiving aid. The results show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011745358
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Geopolitics, aid and growth : conference paper
Dreher, Axel; Eichenauer, Vera; Gehring, Kai - 2014
We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Donor countries political motives might reduce the effectiveness of conditionality, channel aid to inferior projects, reduce the aid bureaucracy s effort, and change the power structure in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487721
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Secondary Education, Economic Growth and Finance
Mammadov, Rza; Gumus, Erdal - 2021
The purpose of this research is to determine the relationship among education, education finance and economic growth on … the basis of secondary education. In the research, the number of students enrolled in secondary education is the indicator … of education, net government education expenditures per student is the education finance variable and per capita GDP is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239765
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Public Investment in Basic Education and Economic Growth
Teles, Vladimir Kühl; de Andrade, Joaquim - 2004
The main objective of this paper was to visualize the relation between government spending on basic education and the … human capital accumulation process, observing the impacts of this spending on individual investments in higher education …, and on economic growth. From the results obtained, we may reach the central conclusion that basic education affects agents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014070325