I discuss how aid can support growth in small, isolated economies. Small markets frustrate scale economies and …

Growth and poverty reduction in Africa are weakly linked. This paper argues that the reason is that Africa has failed … to create enough good jobs. Structural transformation?the relative growth of employment in high productivity sectors …

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 …

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

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