Aid and growth: Evidence using firm-level data

Lisa Chauvet and Hélène Ehrhart
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Hélène Ehrhart: Banque de France - Banque de France, Centre de recherche de la Banque de France - Banque de France

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Abstract: This paper explores the impact of foreign aid on firm growth for a panel of 4355 firms in 29 developing countries, 11 of which are in Africa. Using the World Bank Enterprise Surveys data and controlling for firm fixed effects, we find a positive impact of foreign aid on firms' sales growth. This result is robust to several checks, notably to the instrumentation of aid and to estimations on various sub-samples and on an extended cross-section sample of 93 countries. We then provide evidence that the positive effect of aid is especially strong for firms operating in sectors that are intensive in infrastructure and external finance, suggesting that aid may improve firm performance through the alleviation of infrastructure and financing constraints in developing countries.

Keywords: Foreign aid; Firm growth; Infrastructure constraint; Financing constraint (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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Published in Journal of Development Economics, 2018, 135, ⟨10.1016/j.jdeveco.2018.07.010⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2018.07.010

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