The paper examines empirically the proposition that aid to poor countries is detrimental for external competitiveness …, giving rise to Dutch disease type effects. At the aggregate level, aid is found to have a positive effect on growth of labour … sectors. The paper thus finds no empirical support for the hypothesis that aid reduces external competitiveness in developing …

Political proximity between donor and recipient governments may impair the effectiveness of aid by encouraging … favoritism. By contrast, political misalignment between donor and recipient governments may render aid less effective by adding … effects of aid. Following the estimation approach of Clemens et al. (2012), we find that aid tends to be less effective when …

We analyze the aid portfolio of various bilateral and multilateral donors, testing whether they have prioritised aid in … line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In doing so, we combine sectorally disaggregated aid data with … terms of their overall generosity and the general poverty orientation of aid, but also in the extent to which their sectoral …

This paper empirically analyzes the impact of aid on education for about 100 countries over the period 1970-2005. We … estimate a system of equations to test whether and to what extent the impact of sector-specific aid on educational attainment … depends on (i) the extent to which aid adds to overall educational expenditure of the recipient government, (ii) the strength …

allocating aid in a way that renders effective poverty alleviation more likely. We employ Probit and Tobit models and make use of … an exceptionally detailed database that allows an assessment of the allocation of Swedish NGO aid in comparison to the … allocation of Swedish official aid. Our results show that NGOs are more selective when deciding about which countries to enter at …

It continues to be heavily disputed whether foreign aid promotes economic growth in developing countries. In most cross …-country regressions, aid is considered effective only if it shifts recipient countries to a significantly higher and sustainable growth … suggested by Hausmann, Pritchett and Rodrik. In assessing what can reasonably be expected from the donors' modest aid efforts …

We argue that donors could improve the effectiveness of foreign aid by pursuing complementary and coherent non-aid … policies. In particular, we hypothesize that aid from donors that are open to immigration has stronger growth effects than aid … from closed donors. We estimate the aid-growth nexus in first differences to mitigate endogeneity concerns. Our empirical …