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Aid, Policies, and Growth
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This paper uses a new database on foreign aid to examine the relationships among foreign aid, economic policies, and growth of per capita GDP. We find that aid has a positive impact on growth in developing countries with good fiscal, monetary, and trade policies but has little effect in the presence of poor policies. Good policies are ones that are themselves important for growth. The quality of policy has only a small impact on the allocation of aid. Our results suggest that aid would be more effective if it were more systematically conditioned on good policy. (JEL F350, O230, O400)
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- Authors
- Burnside, C., & Dollar, D.
- Venue
- American Economic Review
- Publisher
- American Economic Association
- Published
- 2000-09-01
- Volume
- 90
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 847-868
- ISSN
- 0002-8282
- OpenAlex
- W3125364203
- Cited by
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- References
- 2
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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