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We examine both grants and net loans made to low income countries during the last two decades to understand the main reasons that motivated the behaviour of both donors and creditors. We find that the total amount of transfers to HIPCs, as compared to non-HIPCs, have been increasing with their...
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We assess the dynamics behind the high net resource transfers of donors and creditors - IDA, bilaterals, IBRD, IMF and other multilateral creditors - to the countries of sub-Saharan Africa in the 1980s and 1990s. Analyzing a panel of 37 recipient countries over the years 1978-98, we find that...
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logit regression of signal determinants and the growth effects of ODA from signal-positive pairs compared to non … associated with altruism. The growth exercise shows ODA from signal bearers displays stronger reverse causation and more positive …
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looked mainly at the relationship between aid and national aggregates, per capita GDP growth in particular. A specific … concern of the paper is the impact of aid on the wealth, education and health of the poorest. Results indicate that while aid …
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This paper examines whether foreign aid in education has a significant effect on growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our … significant effect on growth; (ii) aid in post-primary education has an adverse effect or at best no significant impact on growth …; and (iii) growth increases as aid in primary education as a share of total education aid rises. …
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This paper examines whether foreign aid in education has a significant effect on growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our … significant effect on growth; (ii) aid in post-primary education has an adverse effect or at best no significant impact on growth …; and (iii) growth increases as aid in primary education as a share of total education aid rises. …
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This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on gender equality in education outcomes in developing countries … indicate that aggregate aid disbursements to the education sector negatively affect gender parity in enrolment at the secondary … and tertiary education levels and have no impact on gender parity in primary education. No impact of subsector specific …
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education (likely to have no relationship to growth over four years); and (3) aid that plausibly could stimulate growth in four …Past research on aid and growth is flawed because it typically examines the impact of aggregate aid on growth over a … short period, usually four years, while significant portions of aid are unlikely to affect growth in such a brief time. We …
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This paper analyzes optimal foreign aid policy in a neoclassical framework with a conflict of interest between the donor and the recipient government. Aid conditionality is modelled as a limited enforceable contract. We define conditional aid policy to be self-enforcing if, at any point in time,...
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This paper presents a group of models showing the strikingly different implications of foreign aid to the private sector and public sector. In the first model, with decentralized decision-making and without optimal choices of fiscal policies on behalf of the government, foreign aid to the...
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