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Business Cycle Fluctuations, Large Shocks, and Development Aid: New Evidence

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  • Era Dabla-Norris
  • Camelia Minoiu
  • Luis-Felipe Zanna

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We examine the cyclical properties of development aid using bilateral data for 22 donors and over 100 recipients during 1970?2005. We find that bilateral aid flows are on average procyclical with respect to business cycles in donor and recipient countries. However, they become countercyclical when recipient countries face large adverse shocks to the terms-of-trade or growth collapses-thus playing an important cushioning role. Aid outlays contract sharply during severe donor economic downturns; this effect is magnified by higher public debt levels. Additionally, bilateral aid flows are higher in the presence of IMF programs and are more countercyclical for recipient countries with stronger institutions.

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Paper provided by International Monetary Fund in its series IMF Working Papers with number 10/240.

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Date of creation: 01 Oct 2010
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Keywords: Aid flows; Developed countries; Developing countries; Economic growth; Economic models; External shocks; Fund; Terms of trade;

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  1. Das, Debasish Kumar & Dutta, Champa Bati, 2012. "Global financial crisis and foreign development assistance shocks in least developing countries," MPRA Paper 40281, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  2. Jean-Louis Combes & Christian Ebeke & Mireille Ntsama Etoundi & Thierry Yogo, 2012. "Are Foreign Aid and Remittances a Hedge against Food Price Shocks in Developing Countries?," Working Papers halshs-00608128, HAL.
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