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| Title: | | The Impact of Aid on Growth an aid disaggregation approach  |
| Authors: | | Ouattara, Bazoumana Strobl, Eric |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Zürich 2008 31 |
| Abstract: | | This paper investigates the impact of aid on growth. A clear departure from the vast majority of the existing literature is that we a disaggregate aid by functional classification. Using the GMM SYS approach to dynamic panel estimator we test the three main competing specifications in the aid and growth literature for a sample of aid recipient countries over the 1974-2001 period. Our results clearly show that the different categories of aid exert different effects on growth. Indeed, we find that project aid exerts a positive and significant impact on growth whilst financial programme aid generally impacts on growth negatively. Our results also show that the impact of non-financial aid, technical assistance grants and food aid, is statistically insignificant. We found, however, no evidence to suggest that policy enhances the growth effect of the aid categories. Our non-linearity tests suggest that only project aid is associated with diminishing returns. Finally, our results confirm the finding that climate related conditions affect the working of aid (project). |
| Subjects: | | Aid Growth Dynamic Panel Methods |
| JEL: | | C2 F3 |
| Document Type: | | Conference Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, 2008 (Zürich)
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