Foreign Aid and Real Exchange Rate Adjustments in a Financially Constrained Dependent Economy
August 1, 2008
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Summary
A dynamic dependent-economy model is developed to investigate the role of the real exchange rate in determining the effects of foreign aid. If capital is perfectly mobile between sectors, untied aid has no longrun impact on the real exchange rate. A decline in the traded sector occurs because aid, being denominated in traded output, substitutes for exports in financing imports. While untied aid causes short-run real exchange appreciation, this response is very temporary and negligibly small. Tied aid, by influencing sectoral productivity, does generate permanent relative price effects. The analysis, which employs extensive numerical simulations, emphasizes the tradeoffs between real exchange adjustments, long-run capital accumulation, and economic welfare, associated with alternative forms of foreign aid.
Subject: Capital productivity, Consumption, Expenditure, Foreign aid, Real exchange rates
Keywords: capital stock, mover accent, WP
Pages:
45
Volume:
2008
DOI:
Issue:
204
Series:
Working Paper No. 2008/204
Stock No:
WPIEA2008204
ISBN:
9781451870626
ISSN:
1018-5941
