This paper analyses macroeconomic aspects of exit from aid-dependence. By 'exit from aid', we mean substantial and … similar and very high degrees of dependence on international aid but followed dramatically different trajectories of aid …. We find that the likelihood of exit from aid increases significantly with macroeconomic stability in the sense of …

This article investigates the relationship between foreign aid and population growth in sub-Saharan Africa. The work … foreign aid and population growth and suggests that foreign aid affects population growth primarily through its effect on … fertility. These findings suggest that the appreciation of the demographic effect of foreign aid can have important implications …

This paper analyzes the decentralization of decision-making in aid-giving in a theoretical rent-seeking framework. In …, fashionable aid procedures will lead to the development of a poverty trap. …

We argue that a purpose of foreign aid is to whet the appetite of the recipient in order to bring about a long term … project is established, aid can be removed without reversing the process that has been set in motion. Quite simply, the donor …

To study whether foreign aid fuels personal, regional and ethnic favoritism, we use satellite data on nighttime light … for any region in any aid-recipient country, and we determine for each year and each country the region in which the … current political leader was born. Having a panel with 22,850 regions in 91 aid recipient countries with yearly observations …

In this paper we discuss the impact of scaling-up aid in Tanzania using an economy-wide dynamic CGE model. The major … conclusions coming out from this work is that productivity effects matter. If additional aid and consequently increased public … rate. In a way this resembles previous results in the aid-growth literature that aid has a positive impact on growth in a …

The empirical literature has failed to reach consensus on the impact of aid on development outcomes based on aggregate … cross-country analysis. This study follows the current trend in the literature on the effectiveness of aid to examine the … impact of local-level aid on health outcomes. We combine data on World Bank's geo-located aid projects with three rounds of …

Why would bilateral donors intermediate aid through a multilateral and not extend aid directly? This paper suggests a … regressions with bilateral-pair, fixed effects to model aid allocation decisions. The results confirm that politics is important … for bilateral donors but also that aid fragmentation and strategic behavior affect aid allocation. Multilaterals solve …

Does official aid pave the road for private foreign investment or does it suffocate private initiative by diverting … marginal effect of aid on private foreign investment is close to zero. Surprisingly, however, the effect is strictly positive …