Elite Capture of Foreign Aid: Evidence from Offshore Bank.
This paper analyzes the effects of foreign aid on the economic growth of developing countries. The study uses annual data on a group of 85 developing countries covering Asia, Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean for the period 1980-2007. The hypothesis that foreign aid can promote growth in developing countries was explored. This hypothesis was tested using panel data series for foreign.
Downloadable! This paper examines whether foreign aid in education has a significant effect on growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our analysis covers 38 countries over the period 1990-2004 and we control for initial per capita income, inflation, investment, government consumption, openness to trade and institutional quality. We find that (i) aid in primary education has a positive and significant.
EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF FOREIGN AID ON ECONOMIC GROWTH: A CROSS-COUNTRY STUDY S. were important in shaping the empirical research in this paper, as will become clearer in the next section (see also Section 6). The study by Hansen and Tarp encompasses a list of twenty-nine empirical studies of the aid-growth relationship published from the late sixties to 1998.2 An analysis of the main.
Estimating China’s Foreign Aid 2001-2013 Comparative Study on Development Cooperation Strategies: Focusing on G20 Emerging Economies. Use and dissemination of this working paper is encouraged; however, the JICA Research Institute requests due acknowledgement and a copy of any publication for which this working paper has provided input. The views expressed in this paper are those of the.
This paper shows that foreign aid in postwar Lebanon passed through two phases with distinct features that have had far reaching implications for postwar development. In the first phase lasting from 1992-97, foreign aid was mainly channelled towards providing resources for postwar reconstruction projects. The second phase from 1997 to the present witnessed a qualitative shift in foreign aid.
According to a 2011 white paper on China’s foreign aid, published by the State Council of the PRC, “Financial resources provided by China for foreign aid mainly fall into three types: grants (aid gratis), interest-free loans and concessional loans. The first two come from China's state finances, while concessional loans are provided by the Export-Import Bank of China as designated by the.
Foreign aid to education can both focus on and contribute greatly to some of these building blocks to improved learning, but drawing a direct causal connection between the foreign aid provided and learning achievements involves far more than merely counting the number of pupils enrolled in primary school and assessing progress towards universal enrolment, one of the Millennium Development.