The anarchy of numbers : aid, development, and cross-country empirics (English)

The recent literature contains many stories of how foreign aid affects economic growth. Aid raises growth in countries with good policies, or with difficult economic environments, or outside the tropics, or on average but with diminishing returns. The diversity of the results suggests that many are fragile. Seven important aid-growth papers are tested for robustness, using 14 minimally arbitrary tests deriving mainly from differences among the studies...

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Roodman,David Malin;
Document Date
2007/05/01
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Journal Article
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77539
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1
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1
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World,
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Other,
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2013/05/27
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Disclosed
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The anarchy of numbers : aid, development, and cross-country empirics
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marginal impact

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Roodman,David Malin.

The anarchy of numbers : aid, development, and cross-country empirics (English). Washington DC : World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/572431468336281487

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