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CONSEQUENCES OF DEBT RELIEF INITIATIVES IN THE 1990s
HEPP, Ralf - In: Applied Econometrics and International Development 10 (2010) 1
In this paper I investigate the effects of recent debt relief initiatives on resource flows to low-income developing countries. For countries that are part of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative, I find that good macroeconomic management does not influence the level of resource...
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Does Foreign Aid In Education Promote Economic Growth? Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa
Asiedu, Elizabeth - In: Journal of African Development 16 (2014) 1
This paper examines whether foreign aid in education has a significant effect on growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our … significant effect on growth; (ii) aid in post-primary education has an adverse effect or at best no significant impact on growth …; and (iii) growth increases as aid in primary education as a share of total education aid rises. …
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Does Foreign Aid In Education Promote Economic Growth? Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa
Asiedu, Elizabeth - In: Journal of African Development 16 (2014) 1
This paper examines whether foreign aid in education has a significant effect on growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our … significant effect on growth; (ii) aid in post-primary education has an adverse effect or at best no significant impact on growth …; and (iii) growth increases as aid in primary education as a share of total education aid rises. …
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The Geo-Politics of Foreign Aid and Transnational Terrorism
Azam, Jean-Paul; Thelen, Véronique - In: Revue d’économie du développement 22 (2014) HS01, pp. 263-288
This paper reviews some findings by Azam and Thelen (2008, 2010, 2012) that illustrate how foreign aid is used by rich countries to purchase the services of recipient governments with a view to protect or promote their economic and political interests. In particular, these findings show that...
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Effectiveness of foreign aid in poverty reduction in Africa : the role of fiscal policy
Iwegbu, Onyebuchi; Dauda, Risikat O. S. - In: CBN journal of applied statistics 13 (2022) 1, pp. 55-92
policy on education and health. The study employs panel dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS) estimation technique and covers … the period 1980-2017. The results reveal that foreign aid augmented with effective fiscal policy on education … and consumption in West and Southern regions. Furthermore, foreign aid augmented with effective fiscal policy in education …
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What are the links between aid volatility and growth?
Markandya, Anil; Ponczek, Vladimir; Yi, Soonhwa - In: Journal of Developing Areas 44 (2011) 2, pp. 41-68
adds to this literature in three ways: First it tests the validity of the aid volatility and growth relationship from … between IDA aid volatility and growth, it isolates IDA aid volatility due to the recipient country's performance from that due … real economic growth. But the relationship is not even. It is stronger for sub-Saharan African countries than for other …
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Foreign aid and growth in Nepal: an empirical analysis
Bhattarai, Badri Prasad - In: Journal of Developing Areas 42 (2009) 2, pp. 283-302
Using cointegration and error correction mechanism, this paper investigates the effectiveness of aid in Nepal during the period 1983-2002. Specifically, it examines the long-run relationship between aid and per capita real GDP. To address the current debate on whether aid works only in a good...
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Foreign aid, growth, and poverty relation: a quantile regression approach
Alvi, Eskander; Senbeta, Aberra - In: Journal of Developing Areas 48 (2014) 3, pp. 381-403
In this paper, we examine the aid-growth-poverty relation by using quantile regression, which enables us to estimate … the impact of growth and growth enhancing policies at different quantiles in the conditional distribution of poverty. The … quantile of the dependent variable. We find that growth in average income and other growth enhancing policies have …
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AID AND GROWTH: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM PACIFIC ISLAND COUNTRIES
JAYARAMAN, T.K.; LAU, EVAN - In: Journal of Academic Research in Economics 3 (2011) 2 (July), pp. 122-135
The Pacific island countries (PICs) have been among the world’s top ten recipients of official development assistance (ODA) on a per capita basis. This paper seeks to examine the effectiveness of external aid by undertaking a panel data study covering five countries in the South Pacific,...
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Policies and effectiveness of foreign aid : the case of Sri Lanka
Bhavan, T. - 2013
This empirical study investigates foreign aid’s effectiveness in stimulating growth by considering economic policies … with growth in a good policy environment in Sri Lanka. Regarding determinants, in terms of trade openness and budget … positively associated with aid flow. Unrest in the country and per capita growth negatively influenced aid, whereas commercial …
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