international emergency aid. Although humanitarian need is a major determinant of emergency relief payments, the results imply that … political and strategic factors play a crucial role in the emergency aid allocation. On average, donor governments favor smaller … well as toward their former colonies. The authors also test and reject the independence of donors' aid decisions, finding …

"Aid to developing countries has largely neglected the population-wide health services that are core to communicable …

"Aid is expected to promote better living standards by raising investment and growth. But aid may also affect … examine the effect of aid on economic institutions and find that aid has neither a positive nor a negative impact on existing …

"This paper considers approaches towards improving the predictability of aid to low income countries, with a special … increasing aid flows while pushing for more coordination and tighter performance-based selectivity. However, these factors may … increase the unpredictability of aid from current levels, which are already high enough to impose significant costs …

question the view that a large scaling-up of aid to the poorest countries is a necessary condition for sharp and sustained …

"Much of the academic debate on the effectiveness of foreign aid is centered on the relationship between aid and growth …. Different aid-growth studies find conflicting results: aid promotes growth everywhere; aid has a zero or negative impact on … growth everywhere; or the effect of aid on growth depends on recipient-specific characteristics, such as the quality of …