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Aid can promote growth, but don't rely on it to do so

July 18, 2007

In a recent weblog, Dani Rodrik promotes CGD senior fellow Arvind Subramanian's paper, Aid and Growth: What Does the Cross-Country Evidence Really Show?.
Dani Rodrick suggests reasons why Subramanian's paper is an original look foriegn aid.

From the article:

"What sets the paper apart is its careful consideration of causality issues, and its broad scope and coverage, looking at the relationship under a number of different circumstances and settings."