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By tracking the changes in different margins of Theil indices during the period 1995-2015, we re-consider the question of whether bilateral and multilateral donors have targeted aid increasingly to particularly needy recipient countries with relatively good governance in order to improve the...
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Donor reactions to recent settlements of internal conflicts have been highly diverse, in terms of both overall aid and its sectoral composition. The allocation of post-conflict aid tends to be needs-based by favoring particularly poor countries. There is no conclusive evidence, however, that the...
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In a report presented at the UN Conference on Financing for Development in March 2002, the World Bank claims that the … policies. However, the World Bank's success story rests on an extremely weak foundation: First, the institution's contribution … the distribution of World Bank financing. Second, the picture portrayed in the report takes a bad turn if only two …
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We present a two-step approach of assessing whether major donors of foreign aid have met recent demands for less proliferated and better coordinated aid efforts. First, we calculate Theil indices revealing the concentration of each donor's aid on recipient countries and specific aid sectors....
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Major DAC donors are widely criticized for weak targeting of aid, selfish aid motives and insufficient coordination. The emergence of an increasing number of new donors may further complicate the coordination of international aid efforts. On the other hand, new donors (many of which were aid...
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of donor generosity, aid effectiveness and new means of financing. However, the development orientation of world leaders …
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We assess whether bilateral and multilateral donors of foreign aid specialized and coordinated their activities with other donors as agreed in the Paris Declaration of 2005. We account for donor heterogeneity, varying aid priorities and recipient characteristics in order to isolate changes in...
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It is widely believed that the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has grossly fallen short of high expectations raised by the Bush administration in 2002. From the perspective of potential recipient countries, the crucial issue is whether the MCC increased the overall pool of aid resources...
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empirical research on aid allocation by employing Poisson estimations on the determinants of the World Bank’s choice of project … locations at the district level in India. The evidence of needs-based location choices is very weak, even though World Bank … or district level. However, the World Bank prefers districts where foreign direct investors may benefit from projects …
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