Foreign Financial Aid, Government Policies and Economic Growth: Does the Policy Setting in Developing Countries Matter?

Yusuf Tashrifov
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Yusuf Tashrifov: The National bank of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Zagreb International Review of Economics and Business, 2012, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-22

Abstract: Does foreign aid contribute to economic growth? If so, is the impact of aid conditional on good policies? This is a controversial issue. While the World Bank (1998) contends that the aid is effective only if recipient governments have good policies, others refute this view and argue that aid enhances economic growth regardless of the type of policies. This paper proposes new measures of policy that are more directly controlled by recipient governments and examines whether any signifi cant relationship exists between foreign aid, government policies and economic growth. It is revealed that foreign aid has a positive impact on real growth per capita and this effect is not contingent upon the type of economic policies adopted by the recipient countries.

Keywords: World Bank; Foreign Aid; Government Policies; Economic Growth and Generalised Method of Moments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C1 C8 O10 O11 O19 O47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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