Aid donors and recipients have long been concerned that aid inflows may lead to an appreciation of the real exchange rate and an associated loss of competitiveness. This paper provides new evidence of the dynamic effects of aid on the real exchange rate, using an identification strategy that...

The available evidence on the effects of aid on growth is notoriously mixed. We use a novel empirical methodology, a heterogeneous panel vector-autoregression model identified through factor analysis, to study the dynamic response of exports, imports, and per capita GDP growth to a global aid...

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between foreign aid inflows and the real exchange rate in 12 countries of the CFA Franc zone. Using dynamic panel analysis we find that foreign aid inflows do not generate Dutch disease effects in these countries. In terms of policy...