Dabla-Norris, Era; Minoiu, Camelia; Zanna, Luis-Felipe - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
We examine the cyclical properties of development aid using bilateral data for 22 donors and over 100 recipients during 1970?2005. We find that bilateral aid flows are on average procyclical with respect to business cycles in donor and recipient countries. However, they become countercyclical...