conditionality making China's aid model different to Western donors. China dominates as a donor for Zimbabwe with substantial aid … environmental aid from China, the magnitude of environmental aid from Western donors suggests there is a need to explore other areas …China's importance as a major donor outside the traditional Western donors has been increasing and this has helped to …

recipient governments - about Chinese development finance activities in Africa that can be updated and improved through crowd … verify and update existing data with in-person interviews on Chinese development finance and site visits in Uganda and South … Africa. Ground-truthing generally revealed close agreement between open-source data and answers to protocol questions from …

This paper provides an assessment of what aid has actually been doing in the area of environment in Tanzania through a … critical review of the flows, modalities and management of aid. Focusing on the funding for environmental degradation projects … year (or nearly 10 per cent of the budget). Ultimately, aid money is critical for Tanzania, as over 90 per cent of funds …

This survey of the 2016 replenishments of three multilateral development bank soft funds and of the Global Fund for … AIDS, TB and Malaria shows that a significant re-set of the multilateral development finance system is taking place, with …, the International Development Association). 'Graduation' of countries away from eligibility for highly concessional …

Aid is still an important feature of the development landscape. Fragile states, in particular, have the greatest … development needs but due to their poor governance they are the least likely countries to use aid effectively to meet their … development challenges. In this paper, we explore which fragile states receive most aid flows, which donors are particularly …

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 …

African countries. Thus, any policy initiative targeted towards poverty reduction in Africa should consider the agricultural … issue of finance. Although some significant amounts of agricultural finance has come from official development assistance …-operation and Development show that in 2009, of the total ODA from the Development Assistance Committee countries, only six per cent …

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 …