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Local Financial Development and the Aid-Growth Relationship

By Mwanza Nkusu, Selin Sayek

December 1, 2004

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Mwanza Nkusu, and Selin Sayek. Local Financial Development and the Aid-Growth Relationship, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2004) accessed September 18, 2024
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Summary

With official development assistance (ODA) set to rise as countries strive to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), aid effectiveness remains an important area of development policy. An increasing number of studies support the notion that ODA can contribute to growth in a nonlinear relationship. In this paper, we investigate a new hypothesis regarding this relationship: that deeper financial markets in aid-recipient countries facilitate the management of aid flows, thereby enhancing aid effectiveness. An empirical analysis, using a panel data set, finds robust support for the hypothesis.

Subject: Aid flows, Development assistance, Financial markets, Financial sector development, Foreign aid, Foreign exchange, Real exchange rates

Keywords: Aid flows, Depth indicator, Depth measure, Development assistance, Economic growth, Financial development, Financial market, Financial market depth, Financial market development, Financial sector development, Foreign aid, Interaction term, Poverty, Real exchange rates, Sub-Saharan Africa, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    34

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2004/238

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2382004

  • ISBN:

    9781451875775

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941