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Moral hazard and the composition of transfers : theory with an application to foreign aid
Amegashie, J. Atsu (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003497729
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Optimal management of transfers : an odd paradox
Bourguignon, François; Platteau, Jean-Philippe - In: Journal of public economics 162 (2018), pp. 143-157
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012035439
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Does conditionality work? : a test for an innovative US aid scheme
Öhler, Hannes; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Dreher, Axel - 2011
Performance-based aid has been proposed as an alternative to the failed traditional approach whereby donors make aid conditional on the reform promises of recipient countries. However, hardly any empirical evidence exists on whether ex post rewards are effective in inducing reforms. We attempt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009127656
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Managing reductions in aid inflows : assessing policy choices in Haiti
Moldovan, Ioana R.; Rousset, Marina; Walker, William … - 2018
A low-income country such as Haiti that confronts an environment of diminishing aid inflows must assess tradeoffs among the available policy options: spending cuts, monetization, sales of debt, or use of foreign reserves. To provide the analytical tools for this task, the paper draws from a set...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932211
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Does conditionality mitigate the potential negative effect of aid on revenues?
Crivelli, Ernesto; Gupta, Sanjeev - 2016
This paper assesses whether conditionality in IMF-supported programs has helped offset the potential negative effect of …-income countries-shows that growing use of revenue conditionality by low-income countries partially offsets the depressing effect of … foreign grants on tax revenue, particularly on taxes on goods and services. The impact of conditionality is strong in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011711794
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How Does Conditional Aid (Not) Work?
Ramcharan, Rodney - 2002
Does policy conditionality worsen domestic welfare, as governments are forced to attempt unpopular reforms resulting in … damaging protests, or does conditionality help implement reforms that otherwise would have been impossible? This paper analyzes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399551
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Budget Support Versus Project Aid
Cordella, Tito - 2003
be subject to conditionality. We show that budget support is preferable to project aid when donors and recipients …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403826
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Do foreign aid transfers distort incentives and hurt growth? : theory and evidence from 75 aid-recipient countries
Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Kalyvitēs, Sarantēs; … - 2004
In this paper, foreign aid transfers can distort individual incentives, and hence hurt growth, by encouraging rent-seeking as opposed to productive activities. We construct a model of a small growing open economy that distinguishes two effects from foreign transfers: (i) a direct positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402546
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The political economy of opposition groups : peace, terrorism, or civil conflict?
Jetter, Michael; Li, Bei - 2017
This paper proposes a simple framework to better understand an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open civil conflict against the government. Our model implies that terrorism emerges if constraints on the ruling executive group are intermediate and rents are sizeable, hereas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011754212
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On the Viability of Conditional Assistance Programs
Mayer, Wolfgang - 2005
Economic adjustment and reform programs, including those supported by international financial institutions (IFIs), must cope with informational asymmetries and special interest politics. This presents a particularly serious issue when IFIs make structural economic reforms a condition for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400737