Theory and practice of foreign aid [electronic resource] / edited by S. Lahiri.

Includes index.

Foreign aid, international migration and welfare / Slobodan Djajic -- The hope for hysteresis in foreign aid / Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang -- A Pareto-improving foreign aid in a dynamic north-south Model / Koji Shimomura -- International transfer under stagnation / Yoshiyasu Ono -- Poverty, utilization of foreign aid and corruption : the role of redistributive politics / Sugata Marjit, Vivekananda Mukherjee -- A dynamic analysis of tied aid / Chi-Chur Chao, Bharat R. Hazari, Jean-Pierre Laffargue, Eden S.H. Yu -- Evaluating aid impact : approaches and findings / Howard White -- Scaling up of foreign aid and the emerging new agenda / George Mavrotas -- Aid and development : the Mozambican case / Channing Arndt, Sam Jones, Finn Tarp -- Aid and economic development in Africa / Arne Bigsten -- Conflict in the presence of arms trade : can foreign aid reduce conflict? / Zsolt Becsi, Sajal Lahiri -- Agglomeration and aid / Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen, Charles Van Marrewijk -- Aid and growth in Kenya : a time series approach / Oliver Morrissey, Daniel M'Amanja, Tim Lloyd -- What does aid to Africa finance? / Shantayanan Devarajan, Andrew Sunil Rajkumar, Vinaya Swaroop -- Aid effectiveness in the education sector : a dynamic panel analysis / Katharina Michaelowa, Anke Weber -- The determinants of aid in the post-cold war era / Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Howard J. Wall -- Foreign aid, history, and growth / Scott Gilbert, Kevin Sylwester -- Foreign aid and export performance : a panel data analysis of developing countries / Jonathan Munemo, Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Arabinda Basistha -- Does foreign aid impede foreign investment? / Hamid Beladi, Reza Oladi -- Infrastructure aid, deindustrialization and urban unemployment / Jai-Young Choi, E. Kwan Choi -- When can competition for aid reduce pollution? / Nikos Tsakiris, Panos Hatzipanayotou, Michael S. Michael -- Theory and practice of foreign aid : Introduction / Sajal Lahiri.

The analysis of the transfer paradox has evolved primarily in the context of traditional static models. However, given developments in the policy arena as well in the discipline itself, there is a need for further developments in the theoretical analysis of foreign aid. For example, the impact of aid on saving, investment and growth calls for an intertemporal framework. Development spatial economics calls for introduction of the spatial dimension to the analysis of foreign aid. Similarly, the potential role of aid in conflict resolution, in improving the environment, in public good (infrastructural) provision, in the globalization process, and in the establishment of good governance are some of the issues that also need serious attention. On the empirical side, the issue of the effectiveness of aid; the determinants of aid; the allocation criteria for aid; the relationship between aid and trade, and aid and poverty remain as important as ever.This volume contains a comprehensive analysis of foreign aid from both theoretical and empirical perspectives, written by leading researchers in the field. It is divided into two parts: Theory of Aid and Empirical Studies on Aid. It examines aid practices in a variety of countries and under a variety of conditions.

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