IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/cai/repdal/redp_244_0613.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Is Aid Efficient?

Author

Listed:
  • Audrey Menard
  • Laurent Weill

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to investigate the relation between aid and macroeconomic efficiency. It contributes to the understanding of the puzzling aid-growth linkage. We apply a stochastic frontier approach to estimate macroeconomic efficiency for a panel of 67 countries over the period 1985?2010. We use GMM dynamic panel techniques to analyse the relation between aid and macroeconomic efficiency. We find that aid fosters efficiency. This beneficial effect is found for bilateral aid and multilateral aid. We also show that the favourable impact of aid on efficiency increases with the extent of democracy and the macroeconomic stability of recipient countries.

Suggested Citation

  • Audrey Menard & Laurent Weill, 2014. "Is Aid Efficient?," Revue d'économie politique, Dalloz, vol. 124(4), pages 613-624.
    • Handle: RePEc:cai:repdal:redp_244_0613
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.cairn.info/load_pdf.php?ID_ARTICLE=REDP_244_0613
    Download Restriction: free
    File URL: http://www.cairn.info/revue-d-economie-politique-2014-4-page-613.htm
    Download Restriction: free
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Sèna Kimm Gnangnon, 2021. "Development aid and services export diversification," International Journal of Economic Policy Studies, Springer, vol. 15(1), pages 125-156, February.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Aid; Stochastic frontier approach;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cai:repdal:redp_244_0613. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Jean-Baptiste de Vathaire (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.cairn.info/revue-d-economie-politique.htm .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.