value-for-money for projects funded by national governments and foreign aid donors. This paper uses policy and experimental …

their own bilateral aid programs? If lending by the World Bank, IMF, and regional development banks has an independent …

Critics of foreign aid programs argue that these funds often support corrupt governments and inefficient bureaucracies …. Supporters argue that foreign aid can be used to reward good governments. This paper documents that there is no evidence that … less corrupt governments receive more foreign aid. On the contrary, according to some measures of corruption, more corrupt …

We document that, in rural Uganda, the entry of foreign aid reduces government provision of similar services because … the organization that delivers aid often hires the government worker, thereby reducing state capacity. Access to any …</em> government presence, foreign aid has no effect on state capacity, increases access to any services and improves population well-being …

We examine the supply-side and demand-side determinants of global bilateral food aid shipments between 1971 and 2008 …. First, we find that domestic food production in developing countries is negatively correlated with subsequent food aid … receipts, suggesting that food aid receipt is partly driven by local food shortages. Interestingly, food aid from some of the …