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This paper aims to analyse the effect of foreign aid, moderated by governance effectiveness variables, on economic development in sub-Saharan Africa. Data on foreign aid, GDP and governance variables were from the World Bank governance archives covering ...
Richard Ilorah, Collins C. Ngwakwe
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The main point of this paper is that foreign aid fails because the structure of its incentives resembles that of central planning. Aid is not only ineffective, it is arguably counterproductive.
Miroslav Prokopijević
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Foreign aid and fiscal policy [PDF]
Foreign aid has been on a downward trend since at least the early eighties. Despite the commitments of donor governments, the GDP share of foreign aid for DAC countries has fallen to slightly more than 0,2% in the early part of this decade.
Riccardo Faini
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The Politics of Foreign Aid. [PDF]
Why do donor countries give foreign aid? The answers found in the literature are: (i) because donor countries care for recipient countries (e.g. altruism), and/or (ii) because there exist distortions that make the indirect gains from foreign aid (e.g ...
Wolfgang Mayer +1 more
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Purpose of this paper will study foreign aid, foreign investment and export to growth of chartered investment counsel Indonesia at time line from the year 2000.1 up to 2008.4, with analysis dynamic.
Heru Irianto
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Foreign Aid Reduces Domestic Capital Accumulation and Increases Foreign Borrowing: A Theoretical Analysis [PDF]
In an infinite-horizon model with endogenous time preferences, foreign aid, foreign borrowing, and domestic capital accumulation, a permanent increase in foreign aid leads to a reduction in long-run capital accumulation, a rise in domestic consumption ...
Heng-fu Zou, Liutang Gong
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Macroeconomic Issues in Foreign Aid [PDF]
The macroeconomic rationale for aid relates to its ability to supplement savings, foreign exchange and government revenue, thus contributing to growth. This processes presumes a simple Harrod-Domar context in which growth is driven by physical capital
Peter Hjertholm +2 more
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Assessing the allocation of Italian foreign aid [PDF]
This paper provides an assessment of Italian aid policy during the period 1983-2006. In comparison with other donors (DAC and G-7), the main stylized facts are: persistently lower aid/GDP ratio, greater recourse to multilateral channels, a higher ...
Riccardo Settimo, Claudia Maurini
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Foreign Aid-Blessing or Curse: Evidence from Pakistan [PDF]
The role of foreign aid in promoting economic growth is a debatable issue and remains unsettled at both theoretical and empirical levels. Pakistan has received a substantial amount of foreign aid since its Independence in 1947 but little improvement has ...
Muhammad Arshad Khan, Ayaz Ahmed
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