Finn Tarp
Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow
Professor Tarp has four decades of experience in academic and applied development economics research and teaching. His field experience covers more than two decades of in-country work in 35 countries across Africa and the developing world more...
Journal Article
What Is the Aggregate Economic Rate of Return to Foreign Aid?
In recent years, academic studies have been converging towards the view that foreign aid promotes aggregate economic growth...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development Simulation methods (Economics)
Video
UNU-WIDER Interview Series: Professor Lant Pritchett
An interview with Professor Lant Pritchett from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, conducted during his visit to Helsinki to deliver a presentation titled 'It’s a Deals World: The Dynamics of Capitalism with Weak...
Video
UNU-WIDER Interview Series: Nicolas van de Walle
The intricate dynamic between foreign aid to Africa, democratic transitions and consolidation is the topic of a series of research papers being published under the ReCom Governance & Fragility theme this spring. In this interview we speak to...
Video
ReCom results meeting: Jobs – Aid at work
The ReCom results meeting under the theme ‘Growth & Employment’ titled 'Jobs – Aid at Work' was held 8 October in Copenhagen, Denmark. Speakers included policy makers, practitioners and academics. More about the event...
Video
Research communication: Why doesn’t research turn into policy?
At the recent UNU-WIDER research conference on development and climate change, the communications team took the opportunity to ask participants visiting us here in Helsinki for their views on how research turns into policy. We heard many interesting...
Video
Aid creates growth and jobs
What can foreign do for economic growth and jobs? An important role of aid is to help poor countries mobilize their resources for producing goods and services, thus supporting growth.
Video
New landscape of poverty
The global landscape of poverty has been changing quite dramatically during recent years.
Policy workshop
Development finance - a role for foreign assistance
Has foreign aid boosted economic growth on average in developing countries? How and why is the aid landscape changing? What are the key strategic choices ahead for the development community? These and many other questions were discussed in a policy...
8 June 2015
Danish Embassy, Mchafukoge, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Past event
Working Paper
The Return to Foreign Aid
We investigate the marginal productivity of investment across countries. The aim is to estimate the return on investments financed by foreign aid and by domestic resource mobilization, using aggregate data...
Economic growth Investments Panel analysis
Journal Special Issue
Aid Policy and the Macroeconomic Management of Aid
This is an introduction to the UNU-WIDER special issue of World Development on aid policy and the macroeconomic management of aid...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic policy Monetary policy