Does Foreign Aid Promote the Expansion of Government
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6230106 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karen L Remmer (0000-0001-7000-7839, Duke University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 77-92 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.0092-5853.2004.00057.x |
| OpenAlex | W2171547851 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 140 |
| References cited | 65 |
Building on the literature on public finance, I seek to advance our understanding of variations in government size by exploring the impact of official development assistance on fiscal policy. I hypothesize that foreign aid operates in accordance with the “flypaper effect,” systematically generating incentives and opportunities for the expansion of government spending. Results from a time‐series cross‐sectional regression analysis of growth in government spending over the 1970–99 time period are consistent with the hypothesis. For middle‐ and lower‐income nations, aid represents an important determinant of government expansion. Looking at the tax and revenue side of the equation, however, reveals a more perverse pattern of response: aid promotes not only increased spending but also reduced revenue generation. The results have important implications from both a theoretical and policy perspective. Inter alia they point to the potentially self‐defeating nature of efforts to promote market‐oriented programs of state retrenchment via development assistance as well as to the importance of incorporating international transfers into future research on government spending
Business · Economic policy · Economics · Government (linguistics · Government revenue · Government spending · Incentive · Macroeconomics · Market economy · Point (geometry · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Public finance · Public spending · Retrenchment · Revenue · Tax revenue · Finance · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · International Development and Aid · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Public Administration
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CHAPTER TWO. External Influence, Conditionality, and the Politics of Adjustment
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Dissent on Development
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The Causes of Welfare State Expansion
Comparing Dynamic Specifications
Capital mobility, trade, and the domestic politics of economic policy
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Democracy and National Economic Performance
The Dilemma of Fiscal Federalism
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| Citation span | 2004 - 2026 (23) |
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