Does foreign aid really raise per capita income? A time series perspective

Canadian Journal of Economics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 288-313

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c HELMUT SCHMIDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; EXCHANGE RATE; INCOME; INTERNATIONAL AID; INVESTMENT; PANEL DATA; TIME SERIES;

EID: 84857432338     PISSN: 00084085     EISSN: 15405982     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5982.2011.01696.x     Document Type: Article

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