U.S. Economic Outlook: Quarterly developments

U.S. economic growth disappointed in the first quarter of 2016, as global conditions continued to have an adverse impact. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s third estimate, the GDP grew at a 1.1% annualized pace in the first quarter, up from a previous estimate of 0.8%, and down from 1.4% in the fourth quarter of 2015. Growth was under 1.5% for the last two quarters, the worst six-month performance in nearly three years.

Factores que determinan el aumento o la disminución de cooperación internacional en Colombia por parte de Estados Unidos a través de la Agencia de Estados Unidos para el Desarrollo - USAID

El interés de este estudio de caso es responder a la pregunta ¿Cuáles son los factores que determinan la ayuda de cooperación internacional en Colombia por parte de Estados Unidos a través de su agencia USAID? El propósito más puntual es explicar que estos factores están relacionados con aspectos externos ajenos a la manipulación de estos recursos por parte del gobierno colombiano. Estos factores son, crisis económicas internacionales, política exterior de ambos actores, intereses de las instituciones que asignan los recursos y priorización de Estados Unidos en materia de cooperación internacional. Para esto, se realizará un estudio más dinámico de las posibles variables que se presentan al momento de identificar los determinantes del aumento o la disminución de la cooperación internacional en Colombia. Siguiendo la perspectiva liberal, se avanza hacia el resultado de la investigación que permite identificar y corroborar de forma clara estos factores que determinan el aumento o la disminución de la cooperación internacional.

Macroeconomic impact of foreign aid to developing countries

The thesis looks at the macroeconomic impact of foreign aid. It is specially concerned with aid's impact on the public sector of less developed countries < LDCs> . Since the overwhelming majority of aid is directed to the public sector of LDCs, one can only understand the broader macroeconomic impact of aid if one first understands its impact on this sector. To this end, the thesis econometrically estimates " fiscal response" models of aid. These models, in essence, attempt to shed light on public sector fiscal behaviour in the presence of aid inflows, being specially concerned with the way aid is used to finance various categories of expenditures. The underlaying concern is to extent to which aid is " fungible" -that is, whether it finances consumption expenditure and reductions in taxation revenue in LDCs. A number of alternative models are derived from a utility maximisation framework. These alternatives reflect different assumptions regarding the behaviour of LDC public sectors and relate to the endogeniety of aid, whether or not recurrent expenditure is financed from domestic borrowing and the determination of domestic borrowing. The original frameworks of earlier studies are extended in a number of ways, including the use of a public sector utility function which is fully consistent with expected maximising behaviour. Estimates of these models' parameters are obtained using both time-series and cross-section data, dating from the 1960s, for Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and the Philippines. Both structural and reduced-form equations are estimated. Results suggest that foreign aid is indeed fungible, albeit at different levels. Moreover, the overall impact of aid on public sector investment, consumption, domestic borrowing and taxation varies between countries. Generally speaking, aid leads to increases in investment and consumption expenditure, but reduces taxation and domestic borrowing. Comparative analysis does, however, show that these results are highly sensitive to alternative behavioural assumptions and, therefore, model specification.

Multilateral development assistance : good, bad or just plain ugly?€

Discusses the trends in multilateral development assistance in comparison to bilateral aid, and if multilateral development assistance can be seen as good, bad, or plain ugly. The paper additionally looks at the issues of effectiveness of multilateral aid, selectivity, poverty focus, and aid concentration.

Economic survey of the United States, 1990

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Thailand's Economic Cooperation with Neighboring Countries and Its Effects on Economic Development within Thailand

Thailand's economic cooperation with neighboring countries, including not only trade and investment but also economic assistance, is tied inseparably to regional development within Thailand. Assistance to develop infrastructure along economic corridors, for example, promotes Thai regional development. This study examines the trade and investment relationships between Thailand and its neighboring countries, as well as related economic policies of Thailand. The study also examines the type of economic assistance being extended, and the resulting regional development taking place. And lastly, the study considers policies for further cooperation by Thailand and the implications this has for Japanese economic cooperation.

Warsaw Pact economic aid to non-Communist LDCs, 1984 /

Mode of access: Internet.

Communist aid to less developed countries of the free world, 1977 : a research paper.

"ER 78-10478U."

Soviet and East European aid to the Third world, 1981.

"February 1983"--Cover.

Development and humanitarian assistance programs, FY 1973 presentation to the Congress, program and project data: Latin America.

Cover title.

Ecuador industrial development finance /

"June 1985."

United States aid operations in Latin America. Hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, first session ...

Hearings held Nov. 27-Dec. 11, 1961.

Development assistance program /

"Unclassified"--Cover.

United States aid operations in Peru : hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, first session....

Hearings held Nov. 14, 1960-May 18, 1961.

AID highlights.

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