The paper explores the relationships between economic freedom on the one side and development aid and IMF credit as approximation for conditional aid on the other side. After a short review of current literature on the issue of economic development, economic freedom, aid, and IMF credit, the...

Institut für Halle Institute for Economic Research Wirtschaftsforschung Halle IWH-Diskussionspapiere IWH-Discussion Papers Forced to Freedom? Empirical relations between aid and economic freedom Tobias Knedlik and Franz Kronthaler May 2006 ...