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The real exchange rate, foreign aid and macroeconomic transmission mechanisms in Tanzania and Ghana
Jusélius, Katarina; Reshid, Adbulaziz; Tarp, Finn - 2013
A recent study of 36 sub-Saharan African countries found a positive impact of aid in the absolute majority of these countries. However, for Tanzania and Ghana, two major aid recipients, aid did not seem to have been equally beneficial. This paper singles out these two countries for a more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128334
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The real exchange rate, foreign aid and macroeconomic transmission mechanisms in Tanzania and Ghana
Juselius, Katarina; Reshid, Adbulaziz; Tarp, Finn - 2013
A recent study of 36 sub-Saharan African countries found a positive impact of aid in the absolute majority of these countries. However, for Tanzania and Ghana, two major aid recipients, aid did not seem to have been equally beneficial. This paper singles out these two countries for a more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333685
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The long-run impact of foreign aid in 36 African countries: Insights from multivariate time series analysis
Juselius, Katarina; Framroze Møller, Niels; Tarp, Finn - 2011
Studies of aid effectiveness abound in the literature, often with opposing conclusions. Since most time-series studies use data from the exact same publicly available data bases, our claim here is that such differences in results must be due to the use of different econometric models and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280113
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The real exchange rate, foreign aid and macroeconomic transmission mechanisms in Tanzania and Ghana
Juselius, Katarina; Reshid, Abdulaziz; Tarp, Finn - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013
A recent study of 36 sub-Saharan African countries found a positive impact of aid in the absolute majority of these countries. However, for Tanzania and Ghana, two major aid recipients, aid did not seem to have been equally beneficial. This paper singles
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739465
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African greenfield investment and the likely effect of the African Continental Free Trade Area
Shingal, Anirudh; Mendez Parra, Maximiliano - 2020
Using sector-level data on bilateral greenfield investment for 198 source and destination countries over 2003-2018 in a structural gravity model, we examine the likely effect of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) on African investment. Conditional general equilibrium estimates from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012625345
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African greenfield investment and the likely effect of the African Continental Free Trade Area
Shingal, Anirudh; Mendez Parra, Maximiliano - 2020
Using sector-level data on bilateral greenfield investment for 198 source and destination countries over 2003-2018 in a structural gravity model, we examine the likely effect of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) on African investment. Conditional general equilibrium estimates from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012175785
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Country concepts and the rational actor trap : limitations to strategic management of international NGOs
Kohnert, Dirk - 2004
Growing criticism of inefficient development aid demanded new planning instruments of donors, including international NGOs (INGOs). A reorientation from isolated project-planning towards holistic country concepts and the increasing rationality of a result-orientated planning process were seen as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334861
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Crisis Region Western Africa : the cradle of African migration to Europe
Kohnert, Dirk - 2007 - Rev.
In the last decades the number of refugees from conflict regions in Africa increased dramatically. West Africa is the … cradle of migration from Sub-Saharan Africa to Europe, were most African migrants with overseas destinations live. The … contributed to Africa's growing economic misery, due to the damaging effects of European selfish external trade policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335181
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Aid on demand : African leaders and the geography of China's foreign assistance
Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Hodler, Roland; Parks, Bradley - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317736
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Tracking under-reported financial flows : China’s development finance and the aid-conflict nexus revisited
Strange, Austin M.; Parks, Bradley; Tierney, Michael J.; … - 2015
Chinese official finance to Africa from 2000 - 2011. We find that China's commitments amounted to approximately US$ 73 billion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010526723