-country analysis fails to find any significant link between aid flows and growth, and that aid is successful only when associated with … paper, we offer a re-examination of the literature on the aid-savings, aid-investment, and aid growth relationships, and a … coherent and positive picture of the aid-growth link emerges. Aid works, even in countries hampered by an unfavorable policy …

This paper investigates the role of aid in mitigating the adverse effects of commodity export price shocks on growth in … exchange rate substantially lower the adverse growth effect of shocks. While the mitigating effect of aid is significant in … commodity-dependent countries. Using a large cross-country dataset, we find that negative shocks matter for short-term growth …

utility by in-kind aid, which also lowers fertility and augments economic growth. …This paper considers the effects of humanitarian aid on economic welfare through a demographic transition channel. We … monetary humanitarian aid on economic welfare. We conclude that if parents strongly value children, giving monetary aid …

This empirical study investigates foreign aid’s effectiveness in stimulating growth by considering economic policies … positively associated with aid flow. Unrest in the country and per capita growth negatively influenced aid, whereas commercial … and the factors that influenced aid flow in Sri Lanka during the period of 1980-2008. For both analyses, a single …

least one year – have a significant negative growth effect. Post-conflict recovery of output is enhanced by aid flows but …Growth rates of per capita GDP are depressed by civil conflict to a degree that reflects its severity. Only the more …

The available evidence on the effects of aid on growth is notoriously mixed. We use a novel empirical methodology, a …, imports, and per capita GDP growth to a “global” aid shock (the common component of individual country aid-to-GDP ratios). We … find that the estimated cumulative responses of exports and per capita GDP growth to a global aid shock are strongly …

Is aid effective in increasing growth rates of recipient countries? This is the burning question in any economic … evaluation of aid effectiveness, yet there is no consensus on the answer. Recent advances in growth theory help us to identify … the various mechanisms by which aid can increase growth, notably through increasing investment in physical and human …

that infrastructure like roads, irrigation, electricity aid in growth and so do quality of human capital. Hence … beta convergence but not in favour of sigma convergence. Spatial econometric techniques used in the study aid in … identifying the impact of spatial neighbours on the growth of a state. Results indicate significant spatial dependence among …

countries, an idea that captivates policymakers in international aid and trade diplomacy. A lengthy literature and recent data …

utility by in-kind aid, which also lowers fertility and augments economic growth. …This paper considers the effects of humanitarian aid on economic welfare through a demographic transition channel. We … monetary humanitarian aid on economic welfare. We conclude that if parents strongly value children, giving monetary aid …