Reducing poverty and inequality and promoting inclusive growth are fundamental to achieving the United Nations … existing trends is critical to evidence-based policy-making. This contribution aims to provide an original review and … evaluation of the main stylized facts concerning poverty, inequality, and growth. It will uncover existing trends, put …

The canonical approach to analysing the poverty impact of growth is based on the comparison of poverty before and after … growth. Measurement tools that endorse this approach fail to capture the different experiences of poverty dynamics in the … population: there can be groups of the population made poorer or non-poor made poor by growth. We propose an approach that allows …

the past three decades than those starting out richer, as initial poverty retards growth and makes it less effective in … initial poverty incidences decline over time. Our analysis also finds initial poverty as having little direct effect on growth … in LDCs, except in SSA where higher initial poverty is associated with faster growth. …

Does official aid pave the road for private foreign investment or does it suffocate private initiative by diverting … marginal effect of aid on private foreign investment is close to zero. Surprisingly, however, the effect is strictly positive …

economic growth. The Aid for Trade Initiative – launched at the 2005 World Trade Organisation conference in Hong Kong – aims at … Aid for Trade Can Help" explains how Aid for Trade can foster economic growth and reduce poverty, and why it is an …Trade promotes economic growth, alleviates poverty and helps countries reach their development goals. However …

In this paper, we explore the potential growth effects of foreign aid when in conjunction with severe debt problems. We … economic problem. A set of empirical estimates show that while inflows of foreign aid in general are not associated with growth … first argue that aid, when used to finance debt repayments, does not lead to Dutch Disease while still alleviating an …

-national level in Sub-Saharan Africa over the period 1995-2013. The previous literature examines aid-growth relationship and gets … level tends to promote local economic growth, while aid received at more aggregate levels depresses local economic … hurt institutional environment. Aid at the local level promotes total economic flourish and slows down population growth …

This paper empirically investigates the impact of foreign aid on economic growth and poverty alleviation in India using …. Empirical evidence validates that foreign aid has a significant positive impact on economic growth in the short-run and not in … shortrun and long-run. Therefore, the study concludes that foreign aid is a notable factor of economic growth in the short …

foreign aid. As Gavi’s programs are tightly linked to desirable development outcomes and can be rigorously evaluated, our … results provide support for the broader notion that careful structuring of foreign aid programs can be substantially …

donor countries as exogenous, this article is the first to explore the determinants of aid donorship. We hypothesize that … democratic institutions reduce poor countries' likelihood to initiate aid giving. On the contrary, the leadership of poor … authoritarian regimes face fewer constraints that would hinder these governments to reap the benefits of a development aid program …