@techreport{NBERw9846, title = "New Data, New doubts: A Comment on Burnside and Dollar's "Aid, Policies, and Growth" (2000)", author = "William Easterly and Ross Levine and David Roodman", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "9846", year = "2003", month = "July", URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w9846", abstract = {The Burnside and Dollar (2000, AER) finding that aid raises growth in a good policy environment has had an important influence on policy and academic debates. We conduct a data gathering exercise that updates their data from 1970 -93 to 1970 -97, as well as filling in missing data for the original period 1970 -93. We find that the Burnside and Dollar (2002, AER) finding is not robust to the use of this additional data.}, }