The Economic Benefits of Giving Aid in Terms of Donors` Exports

Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso, Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann D. () and Stephan Klasen
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Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann D.: University of Goetingen / Germany, http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/sh/64104.html
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No 202, Ibero America Institute for Econ. Research (IAI) Discussion Papers from Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research

Abstract: This paper uses the gravity model of trade to investigate the link between bilateral and multilateral foreign aid and exports. There are three primary findings from this approach. First, in the long term, the average return, in terms of an increase in the donor’s level of goods exports, is approximately $ 2.15 US for every aid dollar spent on bilateral aid. Second, multilateral aid has a positive effect on export levels only in the short term, whereas in the long term, the effect is negative. Third, aid from other donors does not give rise to a displacement effect for a given donor-recipient trade relationship. This paper also makes comparisons among donors and finds that aid has a positive and significant effect on most donors’ export levels.

Keywords: exports; foreign aid; donors; panel data; sample selection; GLM (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F10 F35 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2010-03-26
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