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The US Aid Relationship: A Test of the Recipient Need and the Donor Interest Models
R. D. McKinley,R. Little +1 more
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The transfer of official bilateral economic aid has become an institutionalized dimension of the relationship between high- and low-income countries as discussed by the authors, and there is considerable confusion about the transfer process.Abstract:
The transfer of official bilateral economic aid has become an institutionalized dimension of the relationship between high- and low-income countries. There is, however, considerable confusion about...read more
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Aid, Policies, and Growth
TL;DR: Burnside and Dollar as mentioned in this paper used a new database on foreign aid to examine the relationships among foreign aid, economic policies, and growth of per capita GDP and found that aid has a positive impact on growth in developing countries with good fiscal, monetary, and trade policies.
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Who Gives Foreign Aid to Whom and Why
TL;DR: The authors found that the direction of foreign aid is dictated by political and strategic considerations, much more than by the economic needs and policy performance of the recipients, and that countries that democratize receive more aid, ceteris paribus.
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Who Gives Foreign Aid to Whom and Why
TL;DR: This paper found that the direction of foreign aid is dictated as much by political and strategic considerations, as by the economic needs and policy performance of the recipients, and that countries that democratize receive more aid, ceteris paribus.
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Politics and the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid
TL;DR: This paper analyzed the effectiveness of foreign aid programs to gain insights into political regimes in aid recipient countries and found that the impact of aid does not vary according to whether recipient governments are liberal democracies or highly repressive.
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Politics and the effectiveness of foreign aid
TL;DR: The authors found that aid does not significantly increase investment nor benefit the poor as measured by improvements in human development indicators, but it does increase the size of government, and that short-term aid targeted to support new liberal regimes may be a more successful means of reducing poverty than current programs.
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