Development aid and economic growth: A positive long-run relation

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 27-39

  Minoiu, Camelia ^a   Reddy, Sanjay G ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

^b NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aid allocation; Aid effectiveness; Bilateral aid; Economic growth; Foreign aid

Indexed keywords

EID: 73349099341     PISSN: 10629769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.qref.2009.10.004     Document Type: Article

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