This paper surveys recent research on aid and growth. It also provides an overview of research on inter-recipient aid … framework should be built on a recognition that the effectiveness of aid in increasing growth, and by implication in reducing …

This study provides an analysis of the aid-private capital flows-growth nexus for Ghana. It is premised on the argument … how aid can be used as to reinforce the country's growth in a way that reduces its chances of being a victim of the 'oil …

Growth and poverty reduction in Africa are weakly linked. This paper argues that the reason is that Africa has failed … to create enough good jobs. Structural transformation - the relative growth of employment in high productivity sectors … - has not featured in Africa's post-1995 growth story. As a result, the region's fastest growing economies have the least …

This paper investigates the role of aid in mitigating the adverse effects of commodity export price shocks on growth in … commodity-dependent countries. Using a large cross-country dataset, we find that negative shocks matter for short-term growth … exchange rate substantially lower the adverse growth effect of shocks. While the mitigating effect of aid is significant in …

growth (i.e., aid is more effective in countries that are more vulnerable to external shocks). Recently an important debate … involve some volatility in aid flows, which then is not necessarily negative for growth. In this paper we examine to what … consider the effect of aid on income volatility and again find that aid is making growth more stable, while its volatility …

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 … productive sectors and growth of the manufacturing sector. These findings make an important contribution to the economic …

and/or monetary stimuli to foster economic growth and thus, maximize the probability of re-election. Using a panel dataset … have an effect on growth. We find evidence to support the most recent studies showing that aid has a positive impact on … growth. We however, do not find evidence to support the proposition that institutional quality is a sine qua non conditional …

I discuss how aid can support growth in small, isolated economies. Small markets frustrate scale economies and …