This paper analyzes the impact of donor fragmentation on the quality of government bureaucracy in aid-recipient nations …-country empirical tests using an index of bureaucratic quality available for aid-recipient nations over the 1982-2001 period. Declines … a small share of aid), and with smaller shares of aid coming from multilateral agencies, a proxy for donor quot;altruism.quot …

There are significant weaknesses in some of the traditional justifications for assuming that aid will foster … development. This paper looks at what the cross-country aid effectiveness literature and World Bank Operations Evaluation … Department reviews have suggested about effective aid, first in terms of promoting income growth, and then for promoting other …

Do elites capture foreign aid? This paper documents that aid disbursements to highly aid-dependent countries coincide …, natural disasters, and financial crises, and are robust to instrumenting with predetermined aid commitments. The implied … leakage rate is around 7.5 percent at the sample mean and tends to increase with the ratio of aid to GDP. The findings are …

Some multilateral agencies implement aid projects in a broad range of sectors, with aid disbursements showing a strong … aid to non-specialized agencies for implementation? This paper develops a game theoretic model to explain this puzzle …. Donors delegate aid implementation to the multilateral agency (ML) to strengthen the policy selectivity of aid, incentivizing …

inflows. However, aid and foreign direct investment inflows enhance growth, while sovereign debt inflows do not. A 1 percent … increase in the level of real aid inflows raises growth of real output per capita by 0.022 percentage point. For foreign direct …

Aid is good for the poor. This paper uses detailed aid data spanning 60 developing countries over the past two decades … to show that social aid significantly and directly benefits the poorest in society, while economic aid increases the … only utilized aggregate aid data and returned ambiguous results. The paper also confirms that none of the elements of …

exporters are low-income countries that are still receiving substantial levels of foreign aid. Resource discoveries open up … successfully are those with weaker institutions, and these are most likely to remain as clients of the aid system. This paper … the focus and nature of foreign aid programs will need to change, including the level of financial assistance. The paper …