test whether aid affects development, measured as nighttime light growth. Our preferred identification strategy exploits … excludable instrument. Overall, we find significant correlations between aid and growth in ADM2 regions, but no causal effects. …This paper brings the aid effectiveness debate to the sub-national level. We hypothesize the non-robust results …

policy changes. In principle, both conditions are satisfied in the competition policy context for developing countries. This …

testing whether the effect of aid on economic growth is reduced by the share of years a country has served on the United …. Our results show that the effect of aid on growth is significantly lower when aid has been granted for political reasons …We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Donor countries …

that has in the past allowed selectivity in lending in relation to levels of poverty and quality of policy. …, that donors can shift from the current pattern of non-selectivity and defensive lending to a low debt regime – a regime …

countries, but are bad economics. Many others reflect self-interest or successful capture of policy by interest groups in either …

benefit from deeper trade integration. It discusses the policy agenda that confronts many developing countries and identifies … policymakers and researchers on the interaction between trade policy, economic development and the GATT/WTO trading system, but … also provide a model for how to pursue effective policy research. …

The analysis provides a new explanation for two widespread problems concerning European unemployment policy: the … complementarities (in the sense that the effectiveness of one policy depends on the implementation of other policies) and political … complementarities (in that the ability to gain political consent for one policy depends on the acceptance of other policies). Under …

poverty between 1994 and 1998 was due to the changes in cash transfer policy. Keeping benefits at the level of 1994, poverty …