Aid and trade - A donor's perspective

Journal of Development Studies

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1184-1202

  Nowak Lehmann, D Felicitas ^a   Martínez Zarzoso, Inmaculada ^b   Klasen, Stephan ^a   Herzer, Dierk ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Instituto de Economia aplicada   (Spain)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AID FLOW; AID POLICY; DEVELOPMENT AID; ECONOMETRICS; ESTIMATION METHOD; EUROPEAN UNION; EXPORT; INTERNATIONAL AID; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRADE FLOW;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 70449366587     PISSN: 00220388     EISSN: 17439140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220380902952407     Document Type: Article

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