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Forced to Freedom? Empirical relations between aid and economic freedom

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Kronthaler, Franz
Knedlik, Tobias

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The paper explores the relationships between economic freedom on the one side and development aid and IMF credit as approximation for conditional aid on the other side. After a short review of current literature the paper develops a simple panel regression model to evaluate the relationships. In contrast to previous research, our results allow the rejection of the hypothesis that IMF credit increases economic freedom and that development aid is not contributing to economic freedom. It could not be shown that countries can be forced to economic freedom by aid conditions. The paper discusses explanations of the empirical findings. --

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Paper provided by Verein für Socialpolitik, Research Committee Development Economics in its series Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Göttingen 2007 with number 19.

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Keywords: Aid receiving countries; economic freedom; development aid; IMF credit;

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P10 - Economic Systems - - Capitalist Systems - - - General
F35 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Foreign Aid
O19 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations

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