Document Type
Capstone Project
Publication Date
2015
Keywords
Stevenson Center, Foreign Aid, Economic Development
Abstract
This paper examines the relationship between economic growth and aid receipts per capita in a post-Soviet world. Utilizing economic growth models and assumptions developed by Burnside and Dollar (2000), I find that general sources of foreign aid are detrimental to a country's economic growth. I find that net ODA per capita acts as a substitute for local government investment in pro-growth policies. As such, foreign aid should only be used in targeted and specific cases.
Recommended Citation
Michaelson, Brett, "Foreign Aid and Economic Growth: A Post-Soviet Analysis of Emerging Markets" (2015). Stevenson Center for Community and Economic Development—Student Research. 14.
https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/scced/14
