Counting Chickens When They Hatch: Timing and the Effects of Aid on Growth
28 Pages Posted: 3 Jun 2012
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Counting Chickens When They Hatch: The Short-Term Effect of Aid on Growth
Counting Chickens When They Hatch: The Short Term Effect of Aid on Growth
Date Written: June 2012
Abstract
Recent research yields widely divergent estimates of the cross‐country relationship between foreign aid receipts and economic growth. We re‐analyse data from the three most influential published aid–growth studies, strictly conserving their regression specifications, with sensible assumptions about the timing of aid effects and without questionable instruments. All three research designs show that increases in aid have been followed on average by increases in investment and growth. The most plausible explanation is that aid causes some degree of growth in recipient countries, although the magnitude of this relationship is modest, varies greatly across recipients and diminishes at high levels of aid.
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