with a meaningful model of how aid affects development. Although aid certainly has positive impacts in many circumstances …The international goal for rich countries to devote 0.7% of their national income to development assistance has become … a cause célèbre for aid activists and has been accepted in many official quarters as the legitimate target for aid …

Contemporary policy debates on the macroeconomics of aid often concentrate on short-run Dutch disease effects, ignoring … the possible supply side impact of aid—financed public expenditure. We develop a simple model of aid and public … a step increase in net aid flows. Our simulations show that beyond the short-run, where Dutch disease effects are …

Raising school enrollment, like economic development in general, takes a long time. This is partly because, as a … of these, the Millennium Development Goals, call for universal primary schooling and full gender parity by 2015. This …. Third, aid- supported education policies can help within limits, and their performance should be judged in the context of …

Factor-endowment based trade with the leading economy helps to explain the differing development performances of the …

new multilateral disbursements is merely being recycled into multilateral debt service while demands of the development …