Business cycle fluctuations-macroeconomic shocks-development aid

Era Dabla-Norris, Camelia Minoiu and Luis Felipe Zanna

No 09/2011, NCID Working Papers from Navarra Center for International Development, University of Navarra

Abstract: We examine the cyclical properties of development aid using bilateral data for 22 donors and 113 recipients during 1970?2005. We find that bilateral aid flows are on average procyclical with respect to the business cycle in both donor and recipient countries. While aid outlays contract sharply during severe downturns in donor countries, they rise steeply when aid-receiving countries are hit by large adverse shocks. Our findings suggest that development aid plays an important cushioning role in developing countries––regardless of their income level––but only during times of severe macroeconomic stress. Our results are robust to alternate definitions of aid flows, across specifications and estimation techniques.

Keywords: Foreign aid; bilateral donors; business cycle; macroeconomic shocks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E22 E32 O11 O19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 49 pages
Date: 2011-12
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