It is widely believed that foreign aid may help conflict-affected countries to recover after the settlement of conflicts. However, the available empirical evidence supporting this view largely neglects the heterogeneous nature of aid. Drawing on the conflict database of the Uppsala Conflict Data...

This paper models the inter-temporal allocation of bilateral foreign development aid to developing countries. A formal theoretical framework is developed, in which aid is treated as a private good of the donor country bureaucratic group responsible for bilateral aid allocation. This model is...

In this chapter, the authors advance discussions on the relevance of social protection as discussed in the literature and proceed to examine if social protection has played a role in achieving the progress made towards the MDGs. They argue that despite anecdotal evidence promoting social...