Is the relationship between aid and economic growth nonlinear?

Journal of Macroeconomics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 515-540

  Kourtellos, Andros ^a   Tan, Chih Ming ^b   Zhang, Xiaobo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic growth; Foreign aid; Nonlinearity

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548227423     PISSN: 01640704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmacro.2007.02.007     Document Type: Article

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