This paper analyzes the effectiveness of debt relief and foreign aid in a neoclassical growth framework with a conflict … conditional foreign aid is effective in promoting growth and reducing poverty. However, debt relief may be counter …

strategy is linked to transnational territorial cooperation, especially through its third objective, aiming at inclusive growth … research tools of the TERCO Project, which stands for 'European Territorial Cooperation as a Factor of Growth, Jobs and Quality …

We use an excludable instrument to test the effect of foreign aid on economic growth, in a sample of 73 countries over … excludable instrument. Making use of this instrument, our results show that aid increases growth. …

other MDGs, most notably primary education, there is a considerable gap between donor rhetoric and actual aid allocation …

testing whether the effect of aid on economic growth is reduced by the share of years a country has served on the United …. Our results show that the effect of aid on growth is significantly lower when aid has been granted for political reasons …. We derive two conclusions from this. First, short-term political favoritism reduces growth. Second, political interest …

In theory, the IMF could influence economic growth via several channels, among them advice to policy makers, money … data for 98 countries over the period 1970-2000 it analyzes whether IMF involvement influences economic growth in program … countries. Consistent with the results of previous studies, it is shown that IMF programs reduce growth rates when their …

of the data. The previous literature overlooks the non-existence of a long-run relationship between aid and growth and …