Foreign Aid and Domestic Absorption
Jonathan Temple and
Nicolas Van de Sijpe
Bristol Economics Discussion Papers from School of Economics, University of Bristol, UK
Abstract:
This paper introduces a new ‘supply-push’ instrument for foreign aid, to be used together with an instrumental variable estimator that filters out unobserved common factors. We use this instrument to study the effects of aid on macroeconomic ratios, and especially the ratios of consumption, investment, imports and exports to GDP. We cannot reject the hypothesis that aid is fully absorbed rather than used to build foreign reserves or exiting as capital flight, nor do we find evidence of Dutch Disease effects. Aid leads to higher consumption, while the evidence that it promotes investment is less robust.
Keywords: Foreign Aid; Absorption; Dutch Disease. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F35 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 47 pages
Date: 2015-05-19, Revised 2015-05-22
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Published in Journal of International Economics.
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Journal Article: Foreign aid and domestic absorption (2017)
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