Aid and Growth: What Meta-Analysis Reveals
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Aid and Growth : What Meta-Analysis Reveals. / Mekasha, Tseday Jemaneh; Tarp, Finn.
Helsinki : UNU-WIDER, 2011.Research output: Working paper › Research
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TY - UNPB
T1 - Aid and Growth
T2 - What Meta-Analysis Reveals
AU - Mekasha, Tseday Jemaneh
AU - Tarp, Finn
N1 - JEL classification: F35, O1, O4
PY - 2011/4
Y1 - 2011/4
N2 - Some recent literature in the meta-analysis category where results from a range of studies are brought together throws doubt on the ability of foreign aid to foster economic growth and development. This paper assesses what meta-analysis has to say about the effectiveness of foreign aid in terms of the growth impact. We re-examine key hypotheses, and find that the effect of aid on growth is positive and statistically significant. This significant effect is genuine, and not an artefact of publication selection. We also show why our results differ from those published elsewhere.
AB - Some recent literature in the meta-analysis category where results from a range of studies are brought together throws doubt on the ability of foreign aid to foster economic growth and development. This paper assesses what meta-analysis has to say about the effectiveness of foreign aid in terms of the growth impact. We re-examine key hypotheses, and find that the effect of aid on growth is positive and statistically significant. This significant effect is genuine, and not an artefact of publication selection. We also show why our results differ from those published elsewhere.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
M3 - Working paper
SN - 978-9292303853
BT - Aid and Growth
PB - UNU-WIDER
CY - Helsinki
ER -
ID: 35374158