Transfers and Transformations: Remittances, Foreign Aid, and Growth
Jonathan Temple,
Huikang Ying and
Patrick Carter ()
Bristol Economics Discussion Papers from School of Economics, University of Bristol, UK
Abstract:
For many developing countries, international transfers are now a significant source of income. These transfers include official development aid, private charitable donations, and personal remittances. This paper uses dynamic one-sector and multi-sector models to isolate conditions under which transfers could promote growth and structural transformation. Although transfers bring welfare benefits, the effects on investment and growth are modest under isoelastic utility; where investment is profitable, it would be undertaken even in the absence of transfers. Larger effects on growth and sectoral structure emerge when preferences take the Stone-Geary form, since then low investment can co-exist with high returns to investment.
Keywords: foreign aid; remittances; cash transfers; economic growth; structural transformation. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F24 F35 O41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2014-11-28, Revised 2014-12-02
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