The determinants of foreign aid

Poverty in Pakistan

The paper in the study of poverty in Pakistan is aimed at the analysis of macroeconomic determinants of poverty. It reviews the empirical literature on poverty in Pakistan over the last thirty years. The literature varies from published research papers to the different reports produced by the national and the international institutions. It also estimates the impact of different causes of povert...

Determinants of Foreign-Owned Firms Survival in Iran

In terms of financing, penetration in global markets and emphasis on comparative advantage, attracting FDI play a key role in boosting economic growth, providing foreign exchange and increasing non-oil exports. In this study, the effect of determinants on foreign-owned firms survival is investigated by the Complementary Log-Log Model. To achieve the purpose, the future status of valid foreign i...

Foreign Aid, Investment, and Economic Growth in Kenya: A Time Series Approach

Most of the literature on determinants of economic growth in developing countries is based on cross-country analysis and thus only yields some patterns that hold on average. The aim of this paper is to identify aspects of the determinants of growth in Kenya, in particular if aid played a role. The empirical specifications used in cross-country work do not translate easily into country studies: ...

Crowding out Effect of Foreign Aid in Selected Developing Countries: Panel Data Evidence

How Is Foreign Aid Spent ?

It is notoriously difficult to measure the causal impact of foreign aid on the economy. The “micro-macro paradox” (Paul Mosley 1986) renders it impossible to add up the effects of individual aid projects, since foreign aid is fungible. Thus, researchers are left to conduct cross-country analyses to capture the effect of aid on economic growth and other outcomes net of the recipient governments’...