The Impact of Aid on Growth Revisited: Do Donor Motives Matter?

Christopher Kilby and Axel Dreher

No 4156, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: The typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter and then testing the assumption empirically.

Keywords: politics; growth; aid (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F35 O40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2009-04
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Published - published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 107 (3), 338-340

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