Aid and growth : what does the cross-country evidence really show? /

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Author / Creator:Rajan, Raghuram, author.
Imprint:Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, Research Dept., 2005.
Description:1 online resource (48 pages) : color illustrations
Language:English
Series:IMF working paper ; WP/05/127
IMF working paper ; WP/05/127.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12498724
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Other authors / contributors:Subramanian, Arvind, author.
International Monetary Fund. Research Department, issuing body.
ISBN:1283511371
9781283511377
9781451906820
145190682X
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 46-48).
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Summary:We examine the effects of aid on growth-- in cross-sectional and panel data--after correcting for the bias that aid typically goes to poorer countries, or to countries after poor performance. Even after this correction, we find little robust evidence of a positive (or negative) relationship between aid inflows into a country and its economic growth. We also find no evidence that aid works better in better policy or geographical environments, or that certain forms of aid work better than others. Our findings, which relate to the past, do not imply that aid cannot be beneficial in the future. But they do suggest that for aid to be effective in the future, the aid apparatus will have to be rethought. Our findings raise the question: what aspects of aid offset what ought to be the indisputable growth enhancing effects of resource transfers? Thus, our findings support efforts under way at national and international levels to understand and improve aid effectiveness.
Other form:Print version: Rajan, Raghuram. Aid and growth. [Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, Research Dept., 2005

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505 0 |a Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. TACKLING ENDOGENEITY: AN INSTRUMENTATION STRATEGY -- III. AID AND GROWTH: REVISITING THE CROSS-SECTION EVIDENCE -- IV. AID AND GROWTH: REVISITING THE PANEL EVIDENCE -- V. QUANTITATIVE IMPACT OF AID: THEORY AND EMPIRICS -- VI. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES 
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