Geopolitics and the effect of foreign aid on economic growth: 1970-2001

By Derek Headey. 2008

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Subfields: Development, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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The Global Food‐Energy‐Water Nexus (2018, unknown): “33 Clapp, 2015; Headey, 2008).”
More Dollars than Sense: Refining Our Knowledge of Development Finance Using AidData (2011, background): “Headey (2007) finds that multilateral donors tend to give aid to countries with greater need and are less influenced by strategic considerations than bilateral donors.”
Beyond Aid: A Conceptual Perspective on the Transformation of Development Cooperation (2015, unknown): “… of donors (Alesina & Dollar, 2000; Berthélemy, 2006; Temple, 2010), recipient needs and altruistic motives of donors (Claessens et al., 2007; Headey, 2008), rewarding recipients’ performance on specific indicators (Burnside & …”
The effect of aid on growth: evidence from a Quasi-experiment (2014, unknown): “Following the end of the Cold War, however, the share of aid that is highly politicized has arguably fallen significantly, with geopolitical motives declining in importance relative to developmental concerns (Headey 2008).”
Aid and growth: New evidence using an excludable instrument (2020, unknown): “Overall, our results show no positive effects of aid on growth in any of the sub-samples and a negative effect of abundant aid on growth after the Cold War period. longer lags (from 12 years on).”
Aid on Demand: African Leaders and the Geography of China's Foreign Assistance (2015, unknown): “More generally, it may be important to understand the motives for granting aid because cross-country studies provide some evidence that donors’ intent in allocating aid may impact the effectiveness of aid (e.g., Headey 2008; Bearce and Tirone 2010; Dreher et al. 2014a).”