The notion that foreign aid harms the institutions of recipient governments remains prevalent. We combine new … disaggregated aid data and various metrics of political institutions to re-examine this relationship. Long-run cross-section and … alternative dynamic panel estimators show a small positive net effect of total aid on political institutions. Distinguishing …

This paper reviews the political economy of extractive resources and the associated resources sector governance agenda …. The consensus that good sector governance improves the developmental impacts of extractive resources exploitation is … premised on the understanding that institutions matter for development. However, there is no straightforward answer to the …

legitimacy and political leadership; and governance and state capacity. Overall, the selected indicators point to similar trends …

The role of institutions in Asian development has been intensely contested since Myrdal's Asian Drama, with later … agree about the institutions that matter nor do they explain why similar institutions delivered such different results … across countries. Cultural norms and informal institutions clearly matter but the appropriate norms did not already exist in …

relationship is influenced by the quality of local institutions, as proxied by corruption. We use representative data from a large …

hierarchical contests and comparing the implications of centralized with decentralized governance. Increasing information available …

The governance of natural resource wealth is widely considered to constitute a key determinant in whether the … extraction of natural resources proves to be a blessing or a curse. What is meant by governance can span a wide range of … components, while the steps to achieving good governance remain subject to debate and uncertainty. In response to this challenge …

outcomes: economic growth, health and education as two dimensions of human development, and governance, with a focus on …

The paper reviews the dynamics of the financing baseed its analysis on the rich dataset of AidData ranging over 1993 … evolution of the financing of the environment. Such an approach has large benefits as it helps to (1) capture changes in …