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New Data, New Doubts: A Comment on Burnside and Dollar's 'Aid, Policies, and Growth' (2000)


William Easterly


New York University - Department of Economics

Ross Levine


UC Berkeley; Milken Institute; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

David Roodman


Center for Global Development

American Economic Review, Forthcoming

Abstract:     
The Burnside and Dollar (2000) finding that aid raises growth in a good policy environment has had an important influence on policy and academic debates. We conduct a data gathering exercise that updates their data from 1970-93 to 1970-97, as well as filling in missing data for the original period 1970-93. We find that the BD finding is not robust to the use of this additional data.

Keywords: foreign aid, growth, policy

JEL Classification: F350, O230, O400

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Date posted: October 1, 2003  

Suggested Citation

Easterly, William, Levine, Ross and Roodman, David, New Data, New Doubts: A Comment on Burnside and Dollar's 'Aid, Policies, and Growth' (2000). American Economic Review, Forthcoming. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=440062

Contact Information

William Easterly (Contact Author)
New York University - Department of Economics ( email )
269 Mercer Street
New York, NY 10003
United States
Ross Levine
UC Berkeley ( email )
545 Student Services Building
Berkeley, CA 94720
United States
Milken Institute ( email )
1250 Fourth Street
Santa Monica, CA 90401
United States
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States
David Roodman
Center for Global Development ( email )
1800 Massachusetts Ave NW
Third Floor
Washington, DC 20036
United States
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