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China's economic embrace of Africa: An international comparative perspective

Broich T.; Szirmai A. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014

This paper discusses the entry of China into the game of foreign finance in Africa. It analyses the scope, destination and sectoral distribution of Chinese financial flows and trade in comparison with Western patterns and trends of aid, foreign direct investment FDI and trade. Chinas foreign aid...

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Does Aid for Education Attract Foreign Investors? An Empirical Analysis for Latin America

Donaubauer, Julian; Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - FIW - 2013

education is an effective means to increase FDI flows to host countries in Latin America where schooling and education appears … countries over the period from 1984 to 2008. We find that aid for education has a statistically significant positive effect on …

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Aid and Vulnerability

Presbitero, Andrea Filippo - Money and Finance Research group (Mo.Fi.R.) - 2013

Managing and identifying risks are a key challenge for Low Income Countries (LICs), which are extremely vulnerable to exogenous shocks. However, the use of risk management tools by developing countries is quite limited. The paper discusses in which ways aid could strengthen the capacity of LICs...

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Does Aid for Education Attract Foreign Investors? An Empirical Analysis for Latin America

Donaubauer, Julian; Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

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China's Economic Cooperation with Africa

Giovannetti, Giorgio; lippo, Marco Sanfi - In: Journal of African Development 13 (2011) 2

China, still considered itself a developing country, is becoming an increasingly important ‘new’ donor for many African countries. Its own model of foreign assistance, providing aid in the form of economic cooperation based on the achievement of mutual economic benefits and on the principle...

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Effects of foreign aid on GDP growth and fiscal behavior: an econometric case study of bangladesh

Quazi, Rahim M - In: Journal of Developing Areas 38 (2004) 2, pp. 95-117

This study estimates an aid-growth model and an aid-fiscal model to quantify the effects of foreign aid on GDP growth … and fiscal behavior in Bangladesh over the 1973-1999 period. The aid-growth model applies the cointegration method to a … neoclassical growth model and finds that aid has marginal effects on GDP growth, but when aid is disaggregated into loans and …

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Foreign Aid, Legal Origin, Economic Growth and Africa’s Least Developed Countries

Wamboye, Evelyn; Adekola, Abel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

foreign aid to support economic growth? We assess these issues within the framework of a country’s legal origin. The quantity …

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What Drives Donor Funding in Population Assistance Programs?

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Reuser, Mieke - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

The 1994 International Conference of Population and Development (ICPD) established goals for the expansion of population assistance. This global effort has so far not sufficiently been supported by donor funds. Dynamic panel estimation methods are used to see what lies behind the sharing of...

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The reality about aid and governance: the threshold theory

Jaouadi, Saïd - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The aim of this survey is to explain the real impact of aid on governance in the developing countries: including the subsahara and the MENA region during the period 1990-2004 by using the “threshold theory”. Stephen Knack proved that foreign aid had a harmful impact on the governance of the...

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Samaritans, Rotten Kids and Policy Conditionality

Federico, Giulio - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2001

Donors who try to impose policy conditionality on countries receiving their aid commonly face conflicting incentives between using aid to induce income-increasing reforms and using aid to assist low-income countries: this conflict can lead to a time-consistency problem. This paper offers a...

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