Can Foreign Aid Buy Growth

By William R. Easterly. 2003

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Business Environment and Comparative Advantage in Africa: Evidence from the Investment Climate Data (2005, neutral): “A search of World Bank documents revealed that the Bank argued no less than 14 times between 1990 and the present that Africa was about to turn the corner in terms of policy reform (Easterly 2003).”
Aid and Development (2006, methodology): “Others are disappointed and sceptical, a prominent example being Easterly (2001, 2003, 2005, 2006), who highlights aid’s inability to buy growth.”
Making Progress on Foreign Aid (2015, background): “Easterly (2003) also reviews these papers.”
Development Aid and Economic Growth: A Positive Long-Run Relation (2009, positive): “18 Easterly (2005) argues that structural adjustment loans have historically been ineffective in reducing macroeconomic distortions and spurring growth.”
More Dollars than Sense: Refining Our Knowledge of Development Finance Using AidData (2011, background): “…responsible for the creation of the MCC, the scholarship certainly influenced the institution's emergence and its operational rules, and officials certainly drew on these research findings to justify the new agency (Easterly, 2003; Girod, Krasner, & Stoner-Weiss, 2009; Hook, 2008; Krasner, 2009).”
Can foreign aid reduce income inequality and poverty? (2009, result): “In line with recent research that identifies foreign aid’s failure to promote growth even in the presence of good institutions (Easterly 2003; Easterly et al. 2004) or to enhance the quality of democratic institutions (Brautigam and Knack 2004; Knack 2004), we find that aid by itself does not appear”
Roads out of poverty? Assessing the links between aid, public investment, growth, and poverty reduction (2005, critical): “Moreover, Easterly (2003) and Roodman (2003) find that even in the same sample as Burnside and Dollar, the result is not robust to alternative (and equally plausible) definitions of aid, policies, and long-run growth.”
The Long-Run Impact of Foreign Aid in 36 African Countries: Insights from Multivariate Time Series Analysis (2014, neutral): “1See Hansen and Tarp (2001) for a critique of Burnside and Dollar (2000), Arndt et al.”
On the simultaneity problem in the aid and growth debate (2013, methodology): “(11)See for example Easterly et al. (2004) or Roodman (2007).”
Does Foreign Aid Target the Poorest? (2016, neutral): “Easterly 2003; Roodman 2007.”