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Business Cycle Fluctuations, Large Shocks, and Development Aid; New Evidence

Dabla-Norris, Era; Minoiu, Camelia; Zanna, Luis-Felipe - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010

We examine the cyclical properties of development aid using bilateral data for 22 donors and over 100 recipients during 1970?2005. We find that bilateral aid flows are on average procyclical with respect to business cycles in donor and recipient countries. However, they become countercyclical...

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Development Aid and Economic Growth; A Positive Long-Run Relation

Reddy, Sanjay; Minoiu, Camelia - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

We analyze the growth impact of official development assistance to developing countries. Our approach is different from that of previous studies in two major ways. First, we disentangle the effects of two kinds of aid: developmental and non-developmental. Second, our specifications allow for the...

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Local Financial Development and the Aid-Growth Relationship

Nkusu, Mwanza; Sayek, Selin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

With official development assistance (ODA) set to rise as countries strive to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), aid effectiveness remains an important area of development policy. An increasing number of studies support the notion that ODA can contribute to growth in a nonlinear...

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Halving Poverty by Doubling Aid: How Well Founded is the Optimism of the World Bank?

Langhammer, Rolf J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2002

The article criticizes the World Bank as overy optimistic concerning its ability to raise the effectiveness of aid by …

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Is Foreign Aid Working? The Impact of Foreign Aid on Savings, Investment, and Economic Growth in Haiti

Jean, Arche - In: Applied Finance and Accounting 1 (2015) 1, pp. 37-46

Despite increases in foreign aid inflow to Haiti, the country remains one of the poorest in the world. Findings … concessional loans. Data were drawn from the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the Organization for Economic …

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Fungibility of Donor Assistance to Liberia: Focusing on Aid to the Health Sector, a case study

Fairbank, Alan - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

The main purpose of this work is to develop a case study assessing the recent patterns and impacts of ODA (official development assistance) and DAH (development assistance for health) to Liberia on overall government spending and domestic revenue generation as well as domestic government health...

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A Chinese renaissance in an unremittingly integrating global economy

Das, Dilip K. - In: CESifo Forum 9 (2008) 1, pp. 39-46

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Institutions and Economic Performance - To Grow or Not to Grow: Why Institutions Must Make a Difference

Gylfason, Thorvaldur - In: CESifo DICE Report 2 (2004) 2, pp. 3-9

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Corruption and economic growth in some selected transitional economies

Mobolaji, Hakeem Ishola; Omoteso, Kamil - In: Social Responsibility Journal 5 (2009) March, pp. 70-82

Purpose – The general objective of the paper is to investigate the impact of corruption and other institutional factors … for combating it. Specifically, the study attempts to: assess whether corruption has any impact on the growth of the … growth of these economies; and investigate whether corruption in these countries exhibit the efficient grease syndrome …

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Aid, investment and growth : what prospects in the 1990s?

WHITE, H. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 1992

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