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Building or Bypassing Recipient Country Systems : Are Donors Defying the Paris Declaration?

Knack, Stephen - 2013

The 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness sets targets for increased use by donors of recipient country systems for managing aid. It also calls for donors to be more responsive to the quality of recipient country systems: the optimal level of their use, in terms of maximizing the...

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When Do Donors Trust Recipient Country Systems?

Knack, Stephen - 2012

The 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness sets targets for increased use by donors of recipient country systems for managing aid. The target is premised on a view that country systems are strengthened when donors trust recipients to manage aid funds, but undermined when donors manage aid...

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Donor Fragmentation and Bureaucratic Quality in Aid Recipients

Knack, Stephen; Rahman, Aminur - 2013

This paper analyzes the impact of donor fragmentation on the quality of government bureaucracy in aid-recipient nations. A formal model of a donor's decision to hire government administrators to manage donor-funded projects predicts that the number of administrators hired declines as the donor's...

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Individual and Country-Level Factors Affecting Support for Foreign Aid

Paxton, Pamela; Knack, Stephen - 2012

measure attitudes in donor countries: (1) the 1995 World Values Survey has information from approximately 6,000 individuals in …

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Foreign Aid and Market-Liberalizing Reform

Heckelman, Jac; Knack, Stephen - 2012

reforms in these areas. This paper analyzes the impact of aid on market-liberalizing policy reform, correcting for the … possible endogeneity of aid. Results indicate that higher aid slowed reform over the 1980-2000 period, as measured by a broad … index of policies. Disaggregating policy into five areas, aid is significantly linked to slower reform in some policy areas …

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Sovereign Rents and the Quality of Tax Policy and Administration

Knack, Stephen - 2012

, using a World Bank indicator of "efficiency of revenue mobilization." Aid's negative effects on the quality of tax systems …

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The Worldwide Governance Indicators and Tautology : Causally Related Separable Concepts, Indicators of a Common Cause, or Both?

Langbein, Laura; Knack, Stephen - 2012

Aggregate indexes of the quality of governance, covering large samples of countries, are widely used in research and in aid policy. Few studies examine the validity of these indexes, however. This paper partially fills this gap by examining empirically the dimensionality of the Worldwide...

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