Foreign aid, economic outcomes, and happiness

Parviz Dabir-Alai and Abbas Valadkhani

International Journal of Happiness and Development, 2016, vol. 3, issue 2, 97-107

Abstract: First, this paper offers a brief survey of recent knowledge and understanding of the impact of foreign aid disbursements on improving economic outcomes. Based on across time and space observations, the record appears to be very poor. Second, it further explores the characteristics of available research on the economics of happiness, or what is sometimes referred to as subjective well-being. This exploration is made quite generally but we believe productively. Third, it investigates the impact of foreign aid disbursements and policies on happiness from an economics perspective. Finally, the paper brings the themes together and offers some suggestions for further research. The paper acknowledges the potential importance of other academic fields, such as psychology, to this exploration.

Keywords: foreign aid; happiness; Oswald; subjective well-being; economic freedom; Graham; hedonic index; Layard; Easterlin; economic outcomes; aid policy; economics; psychology. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=79588 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijhdev:v:3:y:2016:i:2:p:97-107

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in International Journal of Happiness and Development from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sarah Parker ().