Aid has been the principal source of development finance for the majority of developing countries over the past few decades. This has spawned a large literature on the effectiveness of aid, which remains essentially inconclusive. The empirical literature has tended to evaluate the impact of aid...

This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on public sector fiscal behaviour in Côte d’Ivoire. A special interest is the relationship between aid, debt servicing and debt, given that Côte d’Ivoire is a highly indebted country. The theoretical model employed differs from those of...