The present paper examines the impact of different aid types, namely project aid, program aid, technical assistance, and food aid on the fiscal sector of the aid-recipient economy by using time-series data for Côte d'Ivoire over the period 1975-99. Our empirical results show that when a single...

The authors examine the impact of institutional quality and social capital on aid effectiveness. They find strong evidence that social capital and institutions enhance aid effectiveness. Moreover, once they account for the role of social capital and institutions, the impact of policies tends to...

This is an introduction to the Special Issue. The author provides the background to the development aid arena-to which there clearly exists a pressing need to evaluate progress to date-and introduces and links together the papers that constitute the Special Issue. Copyright 2009 UNU-WIDER....