complexity in assessing impact and effectiveness of aid in water and sanitation sector. Notwithstanding this complexity, the …Water and sanitation sectors have been the 'natural' subjects of aid for several decades. However, these sectors also … magnitude of aid to water supply and sanitation activities has increased significantly, it is not easy to connect aid with …

indicate that the effects of access to sanitation significantly reduce this penalty. Moreover, sanitation is at least as …

Japan has an impressive history when it comes to aid, industrial policy, and infrastructure development, both as a … aid is questioned, few actors can offer more useful experience. Restoring structural transformation as a donor priority …, and recognizing the critical role it played in the development of Japan, is a vital step towards making the real gains aid …

This paper discusses past and current social policy strategies in the international aid architecture. From the 1990s …, aid strategy and policy shifted to put a stronger emphasis on human development. This accelerated with the Millennium … also assesses some of the concerns associated with the 'Paris-style' aid modalities, and discusses major challenges for the …

This paper employs a cointegrated vector autoregressive model to assess the growth effect of aid in Uganda over the … period 1972-2008. Results show that aid in Uganda has had both direct and indirect beneficial association with growth; that … of policy, it is crucial to strengthen fiscal response to aid receipts and ensure aid funded projects are closely …

A dynamic relationship between foreign aid and domestic fiscal variables in Uganda is analysed using a cointegrated … vector autoregressive model over the period 1972-2008. Results show that aid is a significant element of long-run fiscal … are the pulling forces, while those to domestic borrowing, government spending and aid are the pushing forces of the …

This paper contributes to the debate on aid effectiveness by looking at the 'how' of aid effectiveness. In other words … it provides an assessment of whether aid only filled a financing gap or whether it, in addition, helped influence the … significant aid inflows over the last two and a half decades and also recorded significant growth and poverty reduction. The paper …

Bangladesh and Pakistan had very divergent experiences with aid after 1971. Politics in Pakistan was less inclusive in … terms of opportunities for intermediate class political entrepreneurs. In this context, the significant role of military aid … centralized organization of political power and less concentrated forms of aid allowed intermediate class political entrepreneurs …

underwriting more efficient but exclusionary public institutions. This aid-institutions paradox reflects a strong interest … coalition of major donors can and must institutionalize accountability by conditioning scaled-up aid at least with respect for …