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Aid, Spending Strategies and Productivity Effects – A Multi-sectoral CGE Analysis for Zambia

Clausen, Volker; Schürenberg-Frosch, Hannah - 2009

Numerous econometric studies fail to detect a signicant and robust relationship between international aid and economic growth in the recipient countries. Dutch Disease effects might be responsible for this result.This paper examines the relation between aid and its effectiveness in a...

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Contests, NGOs and decentralizing aid

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2005

International donors usually have particular goals they want to achieve with their foreign aid, for example, poverty alleviation. In the international aid story lobbying by potential recipient groups attempting to capture the donor's support play a potentially important role for nongovernmental...

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Where has all the money gone? Foreign aid and the quest for growth

Chatterjee, Santanu; Giuliano, Paola; Kaya, Ilker - 2007

This paper examines fungibility as a possible explanation for the missing link between foreign aid and economic growth. The composition of aid plays a crucial role in determining the composition of government spending and, consequently, the magnitude of fungibility and its impact on growth....

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Good governance and good aid allocation

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2008

We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The structure of the competition is important to the donor in terms of achieving good governance, and to the...

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Elite capture, political voice and exclusion from aid: an experimental study

D'Exelle, Ben; Riedl, Arno - 2008

We experimentally study the influence of local information conditions on elite capture and social exclusion in community-based development schemes with heterogeneous groups. Not only information on the distribution of aid resources through community-based schemes, but also information on who...

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Allocation of labour in urban West Africa: implication for development policies

Dimova, Ralitza; Nordman, Christophe J.; Roubaud, François - 2008

With the use of comparable data from seven West African capitals, we attempt to assess the rationale behind development policies targeting high rates of school enrolment through the prism of allocation of labour and returns to skills across the formal and informal sectors. We find that people...

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The impact of aid on growth revisited: do donor motives matter?

Kilby, Christopher; Dreher, Axel - 2009

The typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter and then testing the assumption empirically.

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The costs of favoritism: is politically-driven aid less effective?

Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2010

As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that...

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Forced to Freedom? Empirical Relations between Aid and Economic Freedom

Knedlik, Tobias; Kronthaler, Franz - 2006

Entwicklungshilfe bzw. IWF-Krediten als Approximation für konditionierte Entwicklungshilfe andererseits. Dazu wird zunächst die aktuelle … Literatur zu Fragen der ökonomischen Entwicklung, der ökonomischen Freiheit, finanzieller Entwicklungshilfe und IWF … Entwicklungshilfe" und IWF-Kredite" als unabhängige Variablen, dient dann als Ausgangspunkt für die empirische Untersuchung. Die Daten …

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Decentralization and foreign aid effectiveness: Do aid modality and federal design matter in poverty alleviation?

Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2010

This paper empirically studies the impact of decentralization on foreign aid effectiveness. For this purpose, we examine a commonly used empirical growth model, considering aid modality as well as different measures of political and fiscal decentralization. Our panel estimations reveal that...

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