government institutions while channeling aid and the impact of such practices on aid effectiveness in Africa. Based on an … empirical study of project aid and budget support provided to Malawi by the World Bank, the African Development Bank, and the …-term impact is more uncertain. The bypassing of local institutions results in the fragmentation of aid, a lack of coordination …

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 …

conditionality making China's aid model different to Western donors. China dominates as a donor for Zimbabwe with substantial aid … also going into Uganda and South Africa while South Africa is the darling of Western donors. Chinese funded projects are … environmental aid from China, the magnitude of environmental aid from Western donors suggests there is a need to explore other areas …

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. …

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 …

responsiveness of employment to growth. The role of development aid in this context is problematic. Across Africa more aid went to … countries with a low employment intensity of growth. The paper proposes a new approach to aid and poverty in Africa, one that …Growth and poverty reduction in Africa are weakly linked. This paper argues that the reason is that Africa has failed …

and Southern Africa. Total aid to these countries' environmental sectors for the 2000s decade is about US$10.17 billion …This study seeks to understand what aid flows have been doing to the environment in eight countries in Eastern, Western … and bilateral aid has been on the rise. There seems to have been a structural change in some countries where donors have …

of 51 African countries covering the period 1980 to 2012, we test first, whether aid and institutional quality factors … have an effect on growth. We find evidence to support the most recent studies showing that aid has a positive impact on … for aid to achieve impact on growth. Second, we test whether donor aid facilitates political business cycles, and …