Develpment Aid Project

See also 208, 153, 143, 142 and 14)

See als meta studies page which deals with aid effectiveness


Short summary in two languages:

Development aid. The embarrassing gap between wishes and results
Conference paper

Udviklingsbistand. Det pinsomme gab mellem ønsker og resultater
Let forkortet i Ræson 2008-1, 92-93

Empirical studies:

Can the two new aid-growth models be replicated?
Public Choice 127, 147-75. 2006.
With Peter Sandholt Jensen, Institut for Virksomhedsledelse og Økonomi, SDU


Does development aid help poor countries catch up?
An analysis using the basic relations

Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift 145, 188-214. 2007.
With Tryggvi Thor Herbertsson, University of Iceland.


See also part two of
Meta-mining. The political economy of meta-analysis
Kyklos 76, 125-140, Jauary 2023


Three sets of evidence about aid effectiveness.
The micro-macro paradox revisited

Revised November 2023.


Backgground documentation:

Appendix: A look at the raw data for aid and growth.
Joint appendix to all six papers. May 2005.


The zero-correlation result
The univariate relation between aid and growth

October-December 2021.


Papers in Danish:

Skaber udviklingshjælp udvikling?
udenrigs 4 2005, p 62-75. Kort oversigt over meta projektet.


Mere hjælp til Afrika. Hvad vil man opnå?
Effekten af hjælp på vækst, korruption og demokrati i Afrika.
Økonomi og Politik 80 nr 2, 2-20. 2007.
Hertil hører:
Appendix 1. Lande og datas egenskaber
Appendix 2. Data
Appendix 3. TSIV estimater


Debat i Altinget om Det Arabiske Initiativ
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