 Aid and Growth in India: Some Evidence from Disaggregated Aid DataSouth Asia Economic Journal, 2002, vol. 3, issue 1, 19-48 Abstract: The article focuses on the impact of aid on growth by using a new approach in the aid-effectiveness literature related to the composition of foreign aid. We present a model of the impact of aid on growth in an aid-recipient economy to derive a reduced-form growth equation, which is subsequently estimated by using time- series data for India over the period 1970-92. The paper improves upon earlier work in the area of aid effectiveness by focusing on a neglected, though important issue, namely the aid-disaggregation and the way it affects the empirics of aid effec tiveness. Disaggregated aid data has been constructed by the OECD to test the rel evance of the aid-disaggregation hypothesis to aid effectiveness for India. Furthermore, the paper employs modern time-series econometric analysis based on general-to-specific modelling and co-integration to shed more light on a highly debatable topic. The empirical results obtained seem to suggest that the composi tion of aid matters for deriving robust conclusions on aid effectiveness in the case of India; at the same time, they seem to call for further work in this promising area within the context of more individual country studies. Keywords: foreign aid; aid effectiveness; aid disaggregation; growth; applied econometrics; India. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:soueco:v:3:y:2002:i:1:p:19-48 DOI: 10.1177/139156140200300102 Access Statistics for this article More articles in South Asia Economic Journal from Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka |
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