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AbstractDoes foreign aid impede or catalyze human development in South and South-East Asia post-1990s? We argue that foreign aid impacts human development negatively in the region overall due to the structural differences in infrastructure development, democratic regimes, patterns of external debt, trading intensity and other macroeconomic factors. Our empirical evidence further justifies that other than aid, improvements in infrastructure sectors and quality of democratic settings beget human development in the region. Considering further angles of external debt and domestic investment into the picture, we find that rising external debt negates, improves domestic investment and accelerates human development. While comparing both regions, we find a noticeable difference in the impacts of macro-institutional factors on human development. However, the impacts of aid on human development remain insignificant.KEYWORDS: Foreign aidhuman developmentAsiaexternal debtJEL Codes: F35O15N15 Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsDevi Prasad DashDr Devi Prasad Dash is working as the Assistant Professor of Economics in the School of Management and Entrepreneurship, Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, India. His areas of specialization are Energy Economics, Economics of Climate Change, Economics of Growth and Development and Economics of Crime.Narayan SethiDr Narayan Sethi is a Professor of Economics and currently Head of the Department (HoD), Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela, Odisha, India. His area of research includes Macro and Open Economy, Development Economics, Monetary Economics and Energy and Environment.Paresh Chandra BarikMr Paresh Chandra Barik is working as the Assistant General Manager in the State Bank of India Branch, London in the United Kingdom.
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