David Dollar
Biographic Data
| ID | 744146 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Dollar |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Dollar |
| SIGNATURE | DOLLAR D |
| AFFILIATIONS | World Bank |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 327 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
U.S.-China trade relations in an era of great power competition
The tech war is having an effect on U.S.-China trade. For high-tech products like telecommunications equipment, semiconductors, and computer accessories, there has been a sharp drop in trade in both directions. This is not simply a drop in demand in the U.S. for these items because imports of them from other partners has soared. Vietnam’s exports to the U.S. jumped in the sensitive categories, and overall Vietnamese exports to the U.S. more than …
Growth still is good for the poor
Growth Still Is Good for the Poor
Growth, Inequality, and Social Welfare: Cross-Country Evidence
Social welfare functions that assign weights to individuals based on their income levels can be used to document the relative importance of growth and inequality changes for changes in social welfare. In a large panel of industrial and developing countries over the past 40 years, most of the cross-country and over-time variation in changes in social welfare is due to changes in average incomes. In contrast, the changes in inequality observed duri…
Growth Still is Good for the Poor
Average incomes in the poorest two quintiles on average increase at the same rate as overall average incomes. This is because, in a global data set spanning 121 countries over the past four decades, changes in the share of income of the poorest quintiles are uncorrelated with changes in average income. The variation in changes in quintile shares is also small relative to the variation in growth in average incomes, implying that the latter account…
The Increasing Selectivity of Foreign Aid, 1984–2003
Investment climate and international integration
Investment Climate and Firm Performance in Developing Economies
Drawing on recently completed firm‐level surveys in Bangladesh, China, India, and Pakistan, this article investigates the relationship between the investment climate and firm performance. These standardized surveys of large, random samples of firms in common sectors reveal that objective measures of the investment climate vary significantly across countries and across locations within these countries. We focus primarily on measures of the time or…
Aid, Policies, and Growth: Revisiting the Evidence
Burnside and Dollar revisit the relationship between aid and growth using a new data set focusing on the 1990s. The evidence supports the view that the impact of aid depends on the quality of state institutions and policies. The authors use an overall measure of institutions and policies popular in the empirical growth literature. The interaction of aid and institutional quality has a robust positive relationship with growth that is strongest in …
Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality since 1980
One of the most contentious issues of \n globalization is the effect of global economic integration \n on inequality and poverty. This paper documents five trends \n in the modern era of globalization, starting around 1980. \n Trend #1: Poor country growth rates have accelerated and are \n higher than rich country growth rates - for the first time \n in modern history. The developing world economy grew at \n more than 3.5 percent per capita in th…
Port efficiency, maritime transport costs, and bilateral trade
Development Effectiveness: What have We Learnt
We suggest that the "poverty-efficiency" aid allocation is merely a benchmark guide if a donor lacks other information about the country and also the power to change or prevail over government preferences. We argue that in most circumstances donors have only limited scope for the latter and that, while high aid dependence may reduce the fungibility problem and the use of NGOs can by-pass it altogether, such circumstances are not very common. Henc…
Trade, Growth, and Poverty
The evidence from individual cases and \n from cross-country analysis supports the view that \n globalization leads to faster growth and poverty reduction \n in poor countries. To determine the effect of globalization \n on growth, poverty, and inequality, the authors first \n identify a group of developing countries that are \n participating more in globalization. China, India, and \n several other large countries are part of this group, so \n w…
Institutions, trade, and growth
Growth is Good for the Poor
The world economy grew well during the 1990s, despite the financial crisis in East Asia. However, there is intense debate over the extent to which the poor benefit from this growth. The two quotes above exemplify the extremes in this debate. At one end of the spectrum are those who argue that the potential benefits of economic growth for the poor are undermined or even offset entirely by sharp increases in inequality that accompany growth. At the…
Aid allocation and poverty reduction
Dollar and Kraay Reply
Spreading the Wealth
ONE OF THE MAIN CLAIMS of the antiglobalization movement is that is widening the gap between the haves and the have-nots. It benefits the rich and does little for the poor, perhaps even making their lot harder. As union leader Jay Mazur put it in these pages, globalization has dramatically increased inequality between and within nations (Labor's New Internationalism, January/February 2000). The problem with this new conventional wisdom is that th…
Are women really the “fairer” sex? Corruption and women in government
Can the World Cut Poverty in Half? How Policy Reform and Effective Aid Can Meet International Development Goals
Aid, Policies, and Growth
This paper uses a new database on foreign aid to examine the relationships among foreign aid, economic policies, and growth of per capita GDP. We find that aid has a positive impact on growth in developing countries with good fiscal, monetary, and trade policies but has little effect in the presence of poor policies. Good policies are ones that are themselves important for growth. The quality of policy has only a small impact on the allocation of…
Who Gives Foreign Aid to Whom and Why?
Does Africa need a Marshall plan
The article evaluates the case for a Marshall Plan for Africa as a solution to the continent's development dilemma. It argues ‘that rather than a lack of capital, inappropriate economic policies and corrupt governance that have made the continent capital‐hostile, are the fundamental causes of Africa's underdevelopment. These factors have induced domestic capital flight, prevented the inflow of private investment and greatly limited the productivi…
What Explains the Success or Failure of Structural Adjustment Programmes
This paper analyses the causes of success or failure of adjustment programmes, using a new database on 220 reform programmes. We find that the success or failure of reform depends on domestic political‐economy forces. A few donor‐effort variables are also highly correlated with the probability of success. However, once these effort variables are treated as endogenous, there is no relationship between any of them and the success or failure of refo…
Household Welfare and Vietnam's Transition
No AccessRegional and Sectoral Studies1 Feb 2013Household Welfare and Vietnam's TransitionAuthors/Editors: David Dollar, Paul Glewwe, and Jennie LitvackDavid Dollar, Paul Glewwe, and Jennie Litvackhttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-4162-6SectionsAboutPDF (1.5 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:Vietnam ' s development since 1985 provides important lessons for economic and social policy. Am…
What Explains the Success or Failure of Structural Adjustment Programmes
This paper analyses the causes of success or failure of adjustment programmes, using a new database on 220 reform programmes. We find that the success or failure of reform depends on domestic political‐economy forces. A few donor‐effort variables are also highly correlated with the probability of success. However, once these effort variables are treated as endogenous, there is no relationship between any of them and the success or failure of refo…
Can the World Cut Poverty in Half? How Policy Reform and Effective Aid Can Meet International Development Goals
Outward-Oriented Developing Economies Really Do Grow More Rapidly: Evidence from 95 LDCs, 1976-1985
The Increasing Selectivity of Foreign Aid, 1984–2003
Trade, Growth, and Poverty
The evidence from individual cases and \n from cross-country analysis supports the view that \n globalization leads to faster growth and poverty reduction \n in poor countries. To determine the effect of globalization \n on growth, poverty, and inequality, the authors first \n identify a group of developing countries that are \n participating more in globalization. China, India, and \n several other large countries are part of this group, so \n w…
Development Effectiveness: What have We Learnt
We suggest that the "poverty-efficiency" aid allocation is merely a benchmark guide if a donor lacks other information about the country and also the power to change or prevail over government preferences. We argue that in most circumstances donors have only limited scope for the latter and that, while high aid dependence may reduce the fungibility problem and the use of NGOs can by-pass it altogether, such circumstances are not very common. Henc…
Spreading the Wealth
ONE OF THE MAIN CLAIMS of the antiglobalization movement is that is widening the gap between the haves and the have-nots. It benefits the rich and does little for the poor, perhaps even making their lot harder. As union leader Jay Mazur put it in these pages, globalization has dramatically increased inequality between and within nations (Labor's New Internationalism, January/February 2000). The problem with this new conventional wisdom is that th…
Agricultural Seasonalily and the Organization of Manufacturing in Early Industrial Economies: The Contrast Between England and the United States
The greater flexibility associated with workers being able to choose the time and circumstance of their work allowed cottage manufacture to compete with technically more productive manufactories by rendering it more effective at harnessing a part time or offpeak workforce whose opportunity cost was low. Not only did this mean that cottage manufacture was better suited to the employment of women and children, who preferred flexibility in their hou…
Investment climate and international integration
Investment Climate and Firm Performance in Developing Economies
Drawing on recently completed firm‐level surveys in Bangladesh, China, India, and Pakistan, this article investigates the relationship between the investment climate and firm performance. These standardized surveys of large, random samples of firms in common sectors reveal that objective measures of the investment climate vary significantly across countries and across locations within these countries. We focus primarily on measures of the time or…
Port efficiency, maritime transport costs, and bilateral trade
Patterns of productivity growth in South Korean manufacturing industries, 1963–1979
Competitiveness, Convergence and International Specialization
Competitiveness, Convergence and International Specialization. Get access Competitiveness, Convergence and International Specialization. By Dollar (David) and WOLFF (EDWARD N.). (Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press, 1993. Pp. ix + 228. £31.50 hardback. ISBN 0 262 04135 9.) Bart Van Ark Bart Van Ark University of Groningen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 104, Issue 427, 1 Nov…
Convergence of South Korean productivity on West German levels, 1966–1978
Economic Reform and Allocative Efficiency in China's State-Owned Industry
U.S.-China trade relations in an era of great power competition
The tech war is having an effect on U.S.-China trade. For high-tech products like telecommunications equipment, semiconductors, and computer accessories, there has been a sharp drop in trade in both directions. This is not simply a drop in demand in the U.S. for these items because imports of them from other partners has soared. Vietnam’s exports to the U.S. jumped in the sensitive categories, and overall Vietnamese exports to the U.S. more than …
Dollar and Kraay Reply
Covergence of Industry Labor Productivity among Advanced Economies, 1963-1982
Data are used for thirteen industrialized countries to investigate convergence of labor productivity levels in individual manufacturing industries over the 1963-82 period. The authors find convergence in virtually every manufacturing industry. Among these countries, the co efficient of variation of industry labor productivity declined in all but one of twenty-eight industries. However, productivity convergenc e is stronger for all manufacturing t…
South Korea-China Trade Relations: Problems and Prospects
Research Article| December 01 1989 South Korea-China Trade Relations: Problems and Prospects David Dollar David Dollar Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1960) 29 (12): 1167–1176. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644763 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Sea…
Patterns of productivity growth in South Korean manufacturing industries, 1963–1979
Economic Reform and Allocative Efficiency in China's State-Owned Industry
Convergence of South Korean productivity on West German levels, 1966–1978
Outward-Oriented Developing Economies Really Do Grow More Rapidly: Evidence from 95 LDCs, 1976-1985
The Distribution of Income and Wealth in Korea
No AccessStand Alone Books1 Feb 2013The Distribution of Income and Wealth in KoreaAuthors/Editors: D. M. Leipziger, D. Dollar, A. F. Shorrocks, Su Yong SongD. M. Leipziger, D. Dollar, A. F. Shorrocks, Su Yong Songhttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-2124-2SectionsAboutPDF (0.6 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:Korea ' s development performance is the envy of the developing world. Its succe…
Competitiveness, Convergence and International Specialization
Competitiveness, Convergence and International Specialization. Get access Competitiveness, Convergence and International Specialization. By Dollar (David) and WOLFF (EDWARD N.). (Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press, 1993. Pp. ix + 228. £31.50 hardback. ISBN 0 262 04135 9.) Bart Van Ark Bart Van Ark University of Groningen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 104, Issue 427, 1 Nov…
The Lessons of East Asia: An Overview of Country Experience
The Role of the State in Taiwan's Development: Taiwan in the Modern World
Agricultural Seasonalily and the Organization of Manufacturing in Early Industrial Economies: The Contrast Between England and the United States
The greater flexibility associated with workers being able to choose the time and circumstance of their work allowed cottage manufacture to compete with technically more productive manufactories by rendering it more effective at harnessing a part time or offpeak workforce whose opportunity cost was low. Not only did this mean that cottage manufacture was better suited to the employment of women and children, who preferred flexibility in their hou…
Household Welfare and Vietnam's Transition
No AccessRegional and Sectoral Studies1 Feb 2013Household Welfare and Vietnam's TransitionAuthors/Editors: David Dollar, Paul Glewwe, and Jennie LitvackDavid Dollar, Paul Glewwe, and Jennie Litvackhttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-4162-6SectionsAboutPDF (1.5 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:Vietnam ' s development since 1985 provides important lessons for economic and social policy. Am…
Aid, Policies, and Growth
This paper uses a new database on foreign aid to examine the relationships among foreign aid, economic policies, and growth of per capita GDP. We find that aid has a positive impact on growth in developing countries with good fiscal, monetary, and trade policies but has little effect in the presence of poor policies. Good policies are ones that are themselves important for growth. The quality of policy has only a small impact on the allocation of…
Who Gives Foreign Aid to Whom and Why?
Does Africa need a Marshall plan
The article evaluates the case for a Marshall Plan for Africa as a solution to the continent's development dilemma. It argues ‘that rather than a lack of capital, inappropriate economic policies and corrupt governance that have made the continent capital‐hostile, are the fundamental causes of Africa's underdevelopment. These factors have induced domestic capital flight, prevented the inflow of private investment and greatly limited the productivi…
What Explains the Success or Failure of Structural Adjustment Programmes
This paper analyses the causes of success or failure of adjustment programmes, using a new database on 220 reform programmes. We find that the success or failure of reform depends on domestic political‐economy forces. A few donor‐effort variables are also highly correlated with the probability of success. However, once these effort variables are treated as endogenous, there is no relationship between any of them and the success or failure of refo…
Are women really the “fairer” sex? Corruption and women in government
Can the World Cut Poverty in Half? How Policy Reform and Effective Aid Can Meet International Development Goals
Growth is Good for the Poor
The world economy grew well during the 1990s, despite the financial crisis in East Asia. However, there is intense debate over the extent to which the poor benefit from this growth. The two quotes above exemplify the extremes in this debate. At one end of the spectrum are those who argue that the potential benefits of economic growth for the poor are undermined or even offset entirely by sharp increases in inequality that accompany growth. At the…
Aid allocation and poverty reduction
Dollar and Kraay Reply
Spreading the Wealth
ONE OF THE MAIN CLAIMS of the antiglobalization movement is that is widening the gap between the haves and the have-nots. It benefits the rich and does little for the poor, perhaps even making their lot harder. As union leader Jay Mazur put it in these pages, globalization has dramatically increased inequality between and within nations (Labor's New Internationalism, January/February 2000). The problem with this new conventional wisdom is that th…
Institutions, trade, and growth
Aid, Policies, and Growth: Revisiting the Evidence
Burnside and Dollar revisit the relationship between aid and growth using a new data set focusing on the 1990s. The evidence supports the view that the impact of aid depends on the quality of state institutions and policies. The authors use an overall measure of institutions and policies popular in the empirical growth literature. The interaction of aid and institutional quality has a robust positive relationship with growth that is strongest in …
Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality since 1980
One of the most contentious issues of \n globalization is the effect of global economic integration \n on inequality and poverty. This paper documents five trends \n in the modern era of globalization, starting around 1980. \n Trend #1: Poor country growth rates have accelerated and are \n higher than rich country growth rates - for the first time \n in modern history. The developing world economy grew at \n more than 3.5 percent per capita in th…
Economics (33 works) · Political science (16 works) · Economic growth (15 works) · Development economics (13 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (13 works) · Economic Growth and Productivity (10 works) · Geography (10 works) · International Development and Aid (10 works) · Business (8 works) · Global trade and economics (8 works)