This is the first study to examine effect of productive capacities on economic complexity and understand whether Aid for Trade (AfT) flows important this in recipient countries. The analysis uses a sample 126 developed developing countries 2002-2018 adopts two-step system Generalized Method Moments approach. Results show that strengthening enhances complexity. Furthermore, total AfT are strongl...

The enormous volume of literature has widely discussed the aid–growth correlation while identification their causal relationship remains elusive and mixed. main objective this article is to investigate whether aid sources matter for explaining nexus among African low-income countries (LICs) during 2000–2017. A novel feature study that it takes into account three proxies (i.e. total [TA], tradit...