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| Title: | | Does foreign aid promote democracy? Aid, democracy, and instability from trade  |
| Authors: | | Kangoye, Thierry |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Working paper // World Institute for Development Economics Research 2011,64 |
| Abstract: | | This study revisits the effect of aid on the quality of institutions and examines the effects of a major source of instability, namely terms-of-trade instability, on the quality of democracy. We take advantage of previous empirical findings which explain the role of aid in mitigating the adverse effects of external shocks, and argue that in the long term, aggregate aid flows can potentially dampen the effects of terms-of-trade instability on the quality of democracy. An empirical investigation with data from 71 developing countries (including 28 African states) over the period 1980-2003 provides supportive results. |
| Subjects: | | democracy foreign aid terms-of-trade instability |
| JEL: | | F35 F4 O11 O43 |
| ISBN: | | 978-92-9230-431-7 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | WIDER Working Papers, United Nations University (UNU)
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