This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on economic growth in Sierra Leone, a country where an empirical … significant contribution in promoting economic growth in the country. This finding is found to be robust across approaches and … specifications. Whilst aid may have been associated with improvement in economic growth in the country, its impact during the period …

direct investment) on economic growth in Cameroon. Using the autoregressive distributive lag approach to cointegration and … direct investment have positive and significant impacts on economic growth in the short and long terms, while the impact of … the labour force on growth was significantly negative in both terms, a result that may be attributable to the fact that …

in furthering economic growth and development. The implications for the donor community of the decreasing relative …

for foreign aid. Using an endogenous growth version of the standard overlapping generations model, we show that aid can be … an effective policy tool in spurring growth in poor countries. This model also furnishes a theoretical foundation for the …-section based conclusions about the aid-growth link, are fully consistent with the positive evidence on aid effectiveness that …

literature doubts the ability of foreign aid to foster economic growth and development. This paper assesses the aid-growth … a positive and statistically significant causal effect on growth over the long run, with confidence intervals conforming … to levels suggested by growth theory. Aid remains a key tool for enhancing the development prospects of poor countries. …

Despite a voluminous literature on the topic, the question of whether foreign aid leads to growth is still … controversial. To observe the pure effect of aid, researchers used instruments that must be exogenous to growth and explain well aid ….6 percentage points higher growth rate. …

This paper assesses econometrically the contribution of aid to output growth in a panel of twenty transition countries … growth. A second result is that the positive effect of aid seems to be stronger when associated with economic liberalisation … economic growth and the recent declining trend in aid commitments from industrialized countries. …

endogeneity problem in the aid-growth relationship. Evidence from a panel VAR model estimated on the dataset of NDHKM, suggests a …

literature has turned decidedly pessimistic with respect to the ability of foreign aid to foster economic growth. Policy … assesses the aid-growth literature with a focus on recent contributions. The aid-growth literature is then framed, for the … and statistically significant causal effect on growth over the long run with point estimates at levels suggested by growth …

literature has turned decidedly pessimistic with respect to the ability of foreign aid to foster economic growth. Policy … assesses the aid-growth literature with a focus on recent contributions. The aid-growth literature is then framed, for the … and statistically significant causal effect on growth over the long run with point estimates at levels suggested by growth …