government institutions while channeling aid and the impact of such practices on aid effectiveness in Africa. Based on an …-term impact is more uncertain. The bypassing of local institutions results in the fragmentation of aid, a lack of coordination …Many practical and action-oriented international roadmaps to improve the quality of aid and its delivery and impact on …

Africa has come a long way since the economic turmoil of the 1980s, the decade of "structural adjustment". Growth has … of diversification in Africa's economies-in contrast to Asia's success stories. Structural adjustment did not change the … manufacturing and service clusters, Africa is yet to follow East Asia in integrating with the global economy in ways that add value …

, especially in Africa, the role of foreign aid in the future should be distinctly different. While aid will be required to … continue to fill the 'savings gap' in some small countries and land-locked countries, in most other countries aid can play a … the other 'BRIC', sovereign wealth funds and infrastructure funds. There are already examples of aid playing such a …

Over many past decades countries in sub-Saharan Africa have received extensive bilateral and multilateral aid in … support of the production of relevant, timely, and good quality data and statistics. But assessing aid effectiveness in the … production on general well-being. The aim of this paper is to review and scope how aid effectiveness might be assessed in this …

Aid providers frequently link supporting small firms to job creation. Small firms create about half of new jobs in … Africa, but they also have higher failure rates. Ignoring firm exit exaggerates net employment growth. Using panel data for … persistently lower. To create more good jobs aid should target the constraints to the growth of firms of all sizes. Improving the …

International aid has an ambiguous effect on the macroeconomy of the recipient country. To the extent that aid raises … production and into non-traded goods production. However, aid for investment in the traded goods sector can mitigate this effect … tend to depreciate the real exchange rate. We examine aid inflows in 26 sub-Saharan African countries, and find a variety …

recently increased the amount of official development aid specifically focused on restoring and maintaining education in less …-developed states. While much attention has been paid to the effect of aid on educational enrolment at the country level, there is a … geographical proximity to aid projects by combining individual-level information on education from six Nigerian Demographic and …

recipient governments - about Chinese development finance activities in Africa that can be updated and improved through crowd … Africa. Ground-truthing generally revealed close agreement between open-source data and answers to protocol questions from …

African countries. Thus, any policy initiative targeted towards poverty reduction in Africa should consider the agricultural ….5 per cent, and humanitarian 11.9 per cent. Using secondary data and country-case studies from Africa, the study … investigates why aid to agriculture has been low, and how the share of ODA to agriculture can be improved. …