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Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Hansen, Henrik - 2015

We investigate the marginal productivity of investment across countries. The aim is to estimate the return on investments financed by foreign aid and by domestic resource mobilization, using aggregate data. Both returns are expected to vary across countries and time. Consequently we develop a...

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Donor ideology and types of foreign aid

Brech, Viktor; Potrafke, Niklas - 2013

governments increased the growth of bilateral grant aid, and more specifically grant aid to least developed and lower middle …

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Does aid induce brain drain? : a panel data analysis

Ontiveros, Darwin Ugarte; Veradi, Vincenzo - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-19

Recent evidence suggests that aid induces migration. This result is nevertheless not very informative from a policy perspective since what counts in terms of welfare consequences is the composition of migration. In this paper we focus on education and study which of skilled or unskilled...

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Aid and social cohesion

Danquah, Michael; Ouattara, Bazoumana - 2021

A plethora of work has been done on the effectiveness of foreign aid. However, virtually none of the previous studies has investigated the impact of aid on social cohesion. Yet, in order to promote the achievement of the targets in SDG 16, donors and global partners of developing countries have...

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Foreign aid and mobilization of growth factors in sub-Saharan Africa

Mallaye, Douzounet; Urbain, Yogo Thierry - 2013

This study addresses the macroeconomic effect of foreign aid on the factors of growth. Specifically, we examine the …

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Foreign aid, poverty and economic growth in developing countries : a dynamic panel data causality analysis

Mahembe, Edmore; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - In: Cogent economics & finance 7 (2019) 1, pp. 1-17

This article examines the causal relationship between foreign aid, poverty, and economic growth in 82 developing … relationship between economic growth and poverty; (b) a unidirectional causal relationship from economic growth to foreign aid; and … converge to its long-run equilibrium path in response to changes in economic growth and poverty; and (b) both economic growth …

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Economic growth in a vulnerable island nation: an empirical study of the aid-growth nexus in Vanuatu

Jayaraman, T.K.; Ward, B.D. - In: Asia-Pacific Development Journal 13 (2006) 2, pp. 93-112

income. This article seeks to examine the nexus between aid and growth in Vanuatu and investigates causes behind the country …

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The Impact of Foreign Aid on Government Spending, Revenue and Domestic Borrowing in Ethiopia

Martins, Pedro M. G. - International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth … - 2007

The main aim of this Working Paper is to assess the impact of foreign aid inflows on public expenditure, revenue and domestic borrowing in Ethiopia. The paper provides a literature overview of the fiscal effects of aid, and then applies a fiscal response model to Ethiopian data for the period...

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Collusion Among Interest Groups : Foreign Aid and Rent-Dissipation.

Svensson, J - Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), … - 1996

This paper develops a game-theoretic model of public policy in a developing country in order to explain a number of empirical regularities. It is shown that under certain circumstances, and increase in government revenue will be completly crowded out by incresed rent dissipation, leaving the...

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Does Foreign Aid Accelerate Economic Growth? An Empirical Analysis for Nigeria

FASANYA, Ismail O.; ONAKOYA, Adegbemi B.O - In: International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues 2 (2012) 4, pp. 423-431

This paper analyses the impact of foreign aid on economic growth in Nigeria during the period of 1970-2010. The … econometric analysis/estimation techniques. Our findings shows that aid flows has significant impact on economic growth in Nigeria …: domestic investment increased in response to aid flows and population growth has no significant effect on aid flows. Aid flows …

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