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      Foreign aid and public goods 

      Hatzipanayotou, Panos; Michael, Michael S. (1995)
      Most less-developed countries (LDCs) use foreign economic aid to finance public consumption goods, or public intermediate inputs. This paper constructs a two-country general equilibrium trade model, where an income transfer ...
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      Illegal immigration, foreign aid, and the transit countries 

      Djajic, Slobodan; Michael, Michael S. (2016)
      This article examines the problem facing an advanced, final-destination country as it seeks cooperation from its less-well-off neighbors to impede unauthorized, thirdcountry migrants from transiting their territories. With ...
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      Is the relationship between aid and economic growth nonlinear? 

      Kourtellos, Andros; Tan, Chih Ming; Zhang, Xiaobo (2007)
      In this paper, we investigate the relationship between foreign aid and growth using recently developed sample splitting methods that allow us to simultaneously uncover evidence for the existence of heterogeneity and ...