Foreign aid and recurrent cost: Donor competition, aid proliferation, and budget support

Review of Development Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 276-287

  Arimoto, Yutaka ^a   Kono, Hisaki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPING ECONOMIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AID POLICY; BUDGET DEFICIT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; INVESTMENT;

EID: 65449130005     PISSN: 13636669     EISSN: 14679361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9361.2008.00486.x     Document Type: Article

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