Assistance (ODA). Based on a comprehensive set of ODA measures and using Propensity Score Matching approach to address selection … the modality of ODA. Moreover, the impact is greatest when LICs are faced with substantial macroeconomic imbalances or … bilateral ODA turn insignificant, suggesting that the catalytic impact is attributed primarily to multilateral ODA …

surged in recent years. Unlike aid from traditional donors, BRICs (excluding Russia) view their financing as primarily based …

This paper shows that donors that maximize relative aid impact spread their budgets across many recipient countries in … a unique Nash equilibrium, explaining aid fragmentation. This equilibrium may be inefficient even without fixed costs … theoretical results. These imply that, short of ending donors' maximization of relative aid impact, agreements to better …

We examine the cyclical properties of development aid using bilateral data for 22 donors and over 100 recipients during … 1970‒2005. We find that bilateral aid flows are on average pro-cyclical with respect to business cycles in donor and …-of-trade or growth collapses - thus playing an important cushioning role. Aid outlays contract sharply during severe donor …

literature on Chinese aid effectiveness. After accommodating publication selection bias, we find that, on average, Beijing … aid variable is measured, the geographic region under study, and publication outlet explain the heterogeneity among … Chinese aid effectiveness estimates reported in the literature …

in size than those offoreign direct investment or offcial development aid. On the supply side, remittances reducelabor …

stability. We estimate the drivers of inflation in Guinea since the early 2000s, a period in which the country suffered major …