As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that … politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of … – are no more likely, on average, to get a negative quality rating than other projects. When aid is given to Security …

Using data from 1988 to 2007, we examine to what extent bilateral aid flows of an individual donor to a country depend … on aid flows from all other bilateral and multilateral donors to that country. We thereby want to assess to what extent … donor coordination, free-riding, selectivity, specialization, and common donor motivations drive bilateral aid allocation as …

Using data from 1988 to 2007, we examine to what extent bilateral aid flows of an individual donor to a country depend … on aid flows from all other bilateral and multilateral donors to that country in that year. We thereby want to assess to … what extent donor coordination, free-riding, selectivity, specialization, and common donor motivations drive bilateral aid …

respond to transnational terrorist incidents and the onset of the War on Terror through changes in aid effort and aid … allocation. First, an analysis of 22 donor countries shows that aid effort increased during the War on Terror period, but did not … respond to the actual number of terror events. Second, using aid allocation equations, we find that countries where terror …

” exit for almost 900 US based NGOs with overseas aid activities during the 1984-2003 period. Apart from their size and …

Foreign aid from China is often characterized as ‘rogue aid’ that is not guided by recipient need but by China …, covering the 1956-2006 period, to empirically test to which extent political and commercial interests shape China’s aid … allocation decisions. We estimate the determinants of China’s allocation of project aid, food aid, medical staff and total aid …

whether the MCC increased the overall pool of aid resources available to them. We argue that this question extends far beyond … aid agencies and non-US donors reacted to MCC decisions. We find that positive signaling effects tend to dominate possible … substitution effects not only for overall US aid but also for multilateral donors. Regarding other bilateral donors the evidence is …

We assess the determinants of the wide variation in the efficiency of foreign aid activities across US-based non … competition is associated with more efficient foreign aid activities of NGOs, rather than leading to “excessive” fundraising …