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JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
Volume 94, Issue 1, Pages 106-118Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2009.12.004
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Aid; Dutch disease; Exports; Manufacturing; Exchange rate
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We examine the effects of aid on the growth of manufacturing, using a methodology that exploits the variation within countries and across manufacturing sectors, and corrects for possible reverse causality. We find that aid inflows have systematic adverse effects on a country's competitiveness, as reflected in the lower relative growth rate of exportable industries. We provide some evidence suggesting that the channel for these effects is the real exchange rate appreciation caused by aid inflows. We conjecture that this may explain, in part, why it is hard to find robust evidence that foreign aid helps countries grow. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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