developmental goods like aid, credit, or technology transfer to the poor. The paper considers a situation where credible …

do, generating disproportionate impact in terms of development and stability. But pioneer firms are rare in fragile …

Over the past decade, donors of foreign aid quadrupled their annual contributions to trust funds at the World Bank … alignment of trust funds with the performance-based allocations of aid by the International Development Association, the World … Bank's concessional lending arm, and raises the question of the role of this new "multi-bi" aid channel. This study finds …

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 …