We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Donor countries …’ political motives might reduce the effectiveness of conditionality, channel aid to inferior projects, reduce the aid bureaucracy … testing whether the effect of aid on economic growth is reduced by the share of years a country has served on the United …

Where imports are financed predominantly by rents from resource extraction or aid, the revenue generated by tariffs is … illusory. Revenue earned by the tariff is offset by a reduction in the real value of aid and resource rents. Revenue is however … moved between accounts in the government budget, which, in the case of aid, may reduce the burden of donor conditionality …

The paper surveys the interactions between aid and trade, distinguishing between policies and outcomes as well as … between various instruments. It first discusses the theoretical literature, focusing on the causal impact of aid on the …

The response of an economy to a windfall of foreign exchange (be it aid or natural resource revenues) is often …

This paper brings the aid effectiveness debate to the sub-national level. We hypothesize the non-robust results … regarding the effects of aid on development in the previous literature to arise due to the effects of aid being insufficiently … large to measurably affect aggregate outcomes. Using geo-coded data for World Bank aid to a maximum of 2,221 first …