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A substantial amount of aid to developing countries is given to the government, or goes through the budget, meaning it should have an impact on government fiscal behaviour (particularly on government spending). The few existing cross-country empirical studies on the effects of aid on government...
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A substantial amount of aid to developing countries is given to the government, or goes through the budget, meaning it should have an impact on government fiscal behaviour (particularly on government spending). The few existing empirical studies on the effects of aid on government spending...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013380683
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conflict and disaster. We exploit a large panel dataset that includes official development aid, and information about the … youth cohort as exogenous instrument for conflict. -- Disaster ; Conflict ; Aid Allocation ; Longitudinal Panel Methods …
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error correction methods. Panel econometric techniques are employed that are consistent in the presence of parameter … trends in aid supplies are unlikely to provide a good guide to those of the future. -- foreign aid ; bilateral donors ; panel …
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One reason donors provide foreign aid is to support their exports to aid-recipient countries. Time series data for Germany suggests an average return of between US$ 1.04 to US$ 1.50 for each US dollar of aid spent by Germany. Although this is well below previous estimates, the value is robust to...
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official development aid and Swiss exports for a panel of 50 recipient countries over the period 1974-2013. To account for … the all period. The former panel plus the seven specific group of countries and the fact that we test for Granger … causality in both directions give us a total of 16 models. As a necessary first step, four different panel unit root tests are …
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We explore whether foreign aid affects developing countries' creditworthiness, as proxied by the Institutional Investor's measure of country credit risk. Based on a simple model of international borrowing and lending, we develop the hypothesis that current aid reduces the likelihood of future...
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This study investigates transition finance in Lebanon, an upper middle-income country in the MENA region transitioning from a significant adverse shock. Lebanon’s development path has been historically non-linear and, most recently, the Syrian conflict adversely affected the country’s...
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The total funding envelope for World Bank projects is often divided among various state and non-state actors, each of … financial collaborators in World Bank projects with the World Bank’s ratings of project performance, looking at within …
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