We raise the hypothesis that aid specifically targeted at economic infrastructure helps developing countries attract … higher FDI inflows through improving their endowment with infrastructure in transportation, communication, energy and finance … allocation of sector-specific aid, the determinants of infrastructure, and the determinants of FDI. We find fairly strong and …

The effects of foreign aid on the endowment of recipient countries with infrastructure have received surprisingly …-in-difference-in-differences estimations, with the treatment defined as steep increases in aid for infrastructure since a distinct change in donor behavior in … 2005. Mitigating endogeneity concerns in this way, we consistently find aid for infrastructure to be ineffective in …

post-conflict aid differs between specific sectors. Our focus is on social and economic infrastructure which is most likely … evidence that post-conflict aid is effective in improving social infrastructure. In contrast, aid appears to be ineffective in … improving economic infrastructure. …

We construct comprehensive and comparable indices on the most relevant components of economic infrastructure. An … period 1990-2010. We map major findings from the new indices on infrastructure and provide country rankings, which we also … compare with subjective assessments of infrastructure in the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report. Finally, we …

country at both stages of their allocation of aid for economic infrastructure and productive sectors. By contrast, evidence … for export competition driving aid allocation is lacking for more altruistic donors and for aid in social infrastructure. …