Aid, China, and Growth: Evidence from a New Global Development Finance Dataset

Published: Oct 1, 2017
Abstract
This paper introduces a new dataset of official financing — including foreign aid and other forms of concessional and non-concessional state financing — from China to 138 countries between 2000 and 2014. We use these data to investigate whether and to what extent Chinese aid affects economic growth in recipient countries. To account for the endogeneity of aid, we employ an instrumental-variables strategy that relies on exogenous variation in the...
Paper Details
Title
Aid, China, and Growth: Evidence from a New Global Development Finance Dataset
Published Date
Oct 1, 2017
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