Is the relationship between aid and economic growth nonlinear?
There have been intensive debates on the role of aid in promoting economic development in developing countries by using cross-country analyses. Cross-country regression assuming linear relationship between aid and growth and without taking into heterogeneity of countries would produce biased estimat...
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| author | Kourtellos, Andros Tan, Chih Ming Zhang, Xiaobo |
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| description | There have been intensive debates on the role of aid in promoting economic development in developing countries by using cross-country analyses. Cross-country regression assuming linear relationship between aid and growth and without taking into heterogeneity of countries would produce biased estimates. To correct this, in this paper we investigate the relationship between foreign aid and growth using recently developed sample splitting methods that allow us to simultaneously uncover evidence for the existence of heterogeneity and nonlinearity. We also address model uncertainty in the context of these methods. We find some evidence that aid may have heterogeneous effects on growth across two growth regimes defined by ethnolinguistic fractionalization. However, when we account for model uncertainty, we find no evidence to suggest that the relationship between aid and growth is nonlinear. In fact, our results suggest that the partial effect of aid on growth is likely to be weakly negative. In this sense, our findings suggest that aid is potentially counterproductive to growth with outcomes not meeting the expectations of donors... The methodology developed in this paper can be used to identify typologies on other outcome variables, such as those included in the Millennium Development Goals. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1602002025-11-06T07:08:39Z Is the relationship between aid and economic growth nonlinear? Kourtellos, Andros Tan, Chih Ming Zhang, Xiaobo economic development typology There have been intensive debates on the role of aid in promoting economic development in developing countries by using cross-country analyses. Cross-country regression assuming linear relationship between aid and growth and without taking into heterogeneity of countries would produce biased estimates. To correct this, in this paper we investigate the relationship between foreign aid and growth using recently developed sample splitting methods that allow us to simultaneously uncover evidence for the existence of heterogeneity and nonlinearity. We also address model uncertainty in the context of these methods. We find some evidence that aid may have heterogeneous effects on growth across two growth regimes defined by ethnolinguistic fractionalization. However, when we account for model uncertainty, we find no evidence to suggest that the relationship between aid and growth is nonlinear. In fact, our results suggest that the partial effect of aid on growth is likely to be weakly negative. In this sense, our findings suggest that aid is potentially counterproductive to growth with outcomes not meeting the expectations of donors... The methodology developed in this paper can be used to identify typologies on other outcome variables, such as those included in the Millennium Development Goals. 2007 2024-11-21T09:50:15Z 2024-11-21T09:50:15Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160200 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Kourtellos, Andros; Tan, Chih Ming; Zhang, Xiaobo. Is the relationship between aid and economic growth nonlinear? IFPRI Discussion Paper 694. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160200 |
| spellingShingle | economic development typology Kourtellos, Andros Tan, Chih Ming Zhang, Xiaobo Is the relationship between aid and economic growth nonlinear? |
| title | Is the relationship between aid and economic growth nonlinear? |
| title_full | Is the relationship between aid and economic growth nonlinear? |
| title_fullStr | Is the relationship between aid and economic growth nonlinear? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Is the relationship between aid and economic growth nonlinear? |
| title_short | Is the relationship between aid and economic growth nonlinear? |
| title_sort | is the relationship between aid and economic growth nonlinear |
| topic | economic development typology |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160200 |
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