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Foreign Aid Policy and Sources of Poverty: A Quantitative Framework

By Alex Mourmouras, Peter Rangazas

January 1, 2006

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Alex Mourmouras, and Peter Rangazas. Foreign Aid Policy and Sources of Poverty: A Quantitative Framework, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2006) accessed November 23, 2024
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Summary

The econometric literature has been unable to establish a robust association between foreign aid and growth and poverty reduction. In this paper we argue that aid effectiveness must be assessed using methods that go beyond cross-country regressions. We calibrate a dynamic general equilibrium model that is capable of generating large income gaps between rich and poor countries. The model quantifies three sources of poverty: (i) lack of access to international capital, (ii) low schooling and high fertility (a poverty trap), and (iii) antigrowth domestic fiscal policy. We analyze policies designed to address each source of poverty and estimate and compare the aid cost of implementing the different policies. The policies differ dramatically in the extent and timing of their growth effects, and in the aid cost of their implementation.

Subject: Capital productivity, Education, Fiscal policy, Poverty, Production, Productivity, Wages

Keywords: Africa, Anti-growth fiscal policy, B. worker productivity difference, Capital mobility, Capital productivity, Fertility, Fiscal policy difference, Fiscal policy reform, Foreign aid policy, Global, Growth, Open economy, Physical capital accumulation, Physical capital difference, Poverty, Poverty trap, Productivity, Productivity gap, Productivity variable, Saving flow, Schooling, Spreads saving, Worker productivity, Worker productivity difference, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    32

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2006/014

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2006014

  • ISBN:

    9781451862744

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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