This paper studies the causal e¤ect of aid volatility on the economic performance of developing countries in 2000-2009 period. We construct a time-varying measure of aid volatility using autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (ARCH). We control for the endogeneity of aid ‡ows by using as instruments for aid volatility three characteristics of donor counitres: (i) their budget de…cits ; (...

Extracellular matrix metalloproteinase inducer (EMMPRIN) is a human leukocyte surface molecule that is enriched on the surface of many cancer cells, and it plays an important role in proliferation and metastasis. In this study, we utilized the chimeric adenoviral vector Ad5/F35 carrying gene encoding scFv against EMMPRIN (scFv-M6-1B9) to down-regulate EMMPRIN cell surface expression and investi...

Sixty babies, delivered over a six and a half year period, who had absent end diastolic frequency (AEDF) in the umbilical artery, were studied. Individually matched control pregnancies for gestational age, birthweight, maternal clinical condition and date of delivery, in whom umbilical artery recordings showed end diastolic frequency, were also studied. Matching was achieved in 36 cases. Neonat...

I use a unique dispute between major aid donors in the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to investigate whether donor nations change their aid giving in response to changes in aid recipients’ voting behavior inside international organizations (IOs). This relationship is difficult to pin down in most IOs because agenda items constantly change and donor coalitions fluctuate with them. I expl...

Understanding the role of foreign aid in poverty alleviation is one of the central inquiries for development economics. To augment past crosscountry studies and randomized evaluations, this project estimates the first sub-national model of foreign aid allocation and impact. Newly geocoded aid project data from Malawi is used in combination with multiple rounds of living standards data to predic...

The link between foreign aid and economic growth remains a controversial issue in the literature, and a large share of the disagreement could be explained by differences in the data employed. Using GDP data from three different versions of the Penn World Table and the World Development Indicators, I investigate the robustness of Juselius, Møller and Tarp (2014)'s (JMT) conclusions about long-ru...

This paper investigates the determinants of the real exchange rate (RER) in Ethiopia. In particular, it assesses whether large capital inflows (e.g. foreign aid and remittances) have an impact on the RER. This empirical exercise tries to improve the current literature in a number of ways: (i) the use of quarterly data provides a larger sample size and enables the modelling of important intra-ye...