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Geopolitics, Aid, and Growth : The Impact of Un Security Council Membership on the Effectiveness of Aid

Dreher, Axel - 2017

The paper investigates the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Specifically, the paper tests whether the effect of aid on economic growth is reduced by the share of years a country served on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in the period the...

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Does Aid Help Improve Economic Institutions?

Coviello, Decio - 2016

pooled annual regressions for a large panel of countries and by pure cross-section regressions. The authors explicitly allow …

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Better Policies from Policy-Selective Aid?

Annen, Kurt - 2019

countries an incentive to improve policies. The paper estimates that a change in the World Banks Country Policy and …

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Fiscal Policy and Debt Dynamics in Developing Countries

Ilzetzki, Ethan - 2017

Using a new tax database for 28 countries and a variety of econometric methods, this paper contributes to the debate on the effects of fiscal policy on economic activity in a number of ways. The analysis finds that tax cuts have a stimulative effect on economic growth in developing countries....

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Building or Bypassing Recipient Country Systems : Are Donors Defying the Paris Declaration?

Knack, Stephen F. - 2017

The 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness sets targets for increased use by donors of recipient country systems for managing aid. It also calls for donors to be more responsive to the quality of recipient country systems: the optimal level of their use, in terms of maximizing the...

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Correlates of Success in World Bank Development Policy Lending

Moll, Peter G. - 2017

This paper examines the correlates of success of development policy lending operations of the World Bank between 2004 … the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group. Departing from the related literature, the paper focuses mostly on … Policy" department of the World Bank, also increase the chance of success. Conversely, a weaker set of supported reforms in …

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The Effect of Aid on Growth : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment

Galiani, Sebastián - 2017

The literature on aid and growth has not found a convincing instrumental variable to identify the causal effects of aid. This paper exploits an instrumental variable based on the fact that since 1987, eligibility for aid from the International Development Association (IDA) has been based partly...

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