, preventable infectious diseases, and health aid response to date; revisits the rationale for health aid through agencies like GAVI …

aid can contribute to development outcomes. Estimates of the ‘cost’ of reaching the MDGs are nevertheless frequently … misinterpreted to mean that a certain quantity of aid—such as the oft-cited $50 billion—could cause the Goals to be met. Despite many …, especially the creation of unreasonable expectations about what is achievable in a short time frame and about the role of aid in …

" and actually begin to allocate aid more seriously to poorer countries with strong and moderate governance. Although there … has been some improvement in aid allocation in recent years, much more can be done. Donors should establish basic rules … for allocating aid based on the extent of poverty and the quality of governance, not to be dogmatic and rigid, but to …

The political economy of aid agencies is driven by incomplete information and multiple competing objectives and … confounded by principal-agent and collective-action problems. Policies to improve aid rely too much on a planning paradigm that … tries to ignore, rather than change, the political economy of aid. A considered combination of market mechanisms, networked …

During the 1990s, the World Bank and several donor partners provided a “surge” in external aid to support Pakistan …