International donors usually have particular goals they want to achieve with their foreign aid, for example, poverty … alleviation. In the international aid story lobbying by potential recipient groups attempting to capture the donor’s support play …

The typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of … aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter …

). Comparisons by gender and ethnicity can then be made. Characteristics (endowments) and wage structures of the four groups are … occupations. Wage differences are then examined and decomposed into 3 components: Endowments (human capital), discrimination and …

We examine the interaction between foreign aid and binding borrowing constraint for a recipient country. We also … amount of foreign aid it receives, and (ii) there is a critical level of international financial transfer, and the marginal … effect of foreign aid is larger than that of loans if and only if the transfer (loans or foreign aid) is below this critical …

size of government development aid. There has been a strong growth over time, reflecting the activities of development … charities. When did the increase take place? Did the public respond to events such as Live Aid? Or has there been a steady …

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 …

Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to …