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A Model of Public Fiscal Behavior in Developing Countries: Aid, Investment, and Taxation
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This article is published in The American Economic Review.The article was published on 1975-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 339 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Investment (macroeconomics) & Developing country.read more
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Aid effectiveness disputed
Henrik Hansen,Finn Tarp +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a re-examination of the literature on the aid-savings, aid-investment, and aid growth relationships, and a comparative appraisal of more recent research contributions is presented.
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Public financing of health in developing countries: a cross-national systematic analysis
Chunling Lu,Matthew T. Schneider,Paul Gubbins,Katherine Leach-Kemon,Dean T. Jamison,Christopher J L Murray +5 more
TL;DR: The statistical analysis showed that DAH to government had a negative and significant effect on domestic government spending on health such that for every US$1 of DAHto government, government health expenditures from domestic resources were reduced, and strong standardised monitoring of government health expenditure and government spending in other health-related sectors was recommended.
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An Aid-Institutions Paradox? A Review Essay on Aid Dependency and State Building in Sub-Saharan Africa
TL;DR: This article reviewed the evidence regarding the potentially negative effects of aid dependence on state institutions, and concluded that states which can raise a substantial proportion of their revenues from the international community are less accountable to their citizens and under less pressure to maintain popular legitimacy.
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Government Policy and Private Investment in Developing Countries (Politique des pouvoirs publics et investissement privé dans les pays en développement) (PolÃtica estatal e inversión privada en los paÃses en desarrollo)
Mario I. Blejer,Mohsin S. Khan +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a model of private investment in developing countries is formulated to analyze the empirical relations between private investment and some of its main determinants, focusing on the influences that variations in bank credit and in government capital formation have on the private sector's investment decisions.
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A Political Economy of Aid
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors model how the size of a leader's support coalition and government rev- enues aect trades between policy concessions and aid, and find that aid bene- ect donor and recipient leaders, while harming the recipient's but not the donor's, citizenry.
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Aid, Foreign Private Investment, Savings, and Growth in Less Developed Countries
TL;DR: This paper applied cross-country regression analysis to thirty-four countries and fifty-one countries for the 1950s and 1960s for the USA and found that foreign aid, foreign investment, other inflows and domestic savings are independent independent variables.
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Further Evidence on the Estimation of Dynamic Economic Relations from a Time Series of Cross Sections
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The impact of foreign capital inflow on domestic savings in underdeveloped countries
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An Econometric Test of Alternative Constraints on the Growth of Underdeveloped Countries
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed and applied an econometric method that can be used systematically to classify countries according to their dominant constraint over varying periods of time, based on which constraint was in fact binding during the period used for estimation.