analyze whether Aid for Trade (AfT) has helped recipient countries upgrade and diversify their exports. Estimating an … asymmetric and aggregated gravity model, we find that AfT has been effective in promoting recipient exports of manufactures …

Recent studies offer an ambiguous picture on the effectiveness of foreign aid in strengthening the export capacity of … recipient countries. Moreover, the literature on aid for trade (AfT) has often neglected that exporters in the donor countries … have promoted the exports of recipient countries. We simultaneously estimate and compare the effects of AfT on trade in …

We account for the competition for export markets among the donor countries of foreign aid by analyzing spatial … dependence in aid allocation. We employ sector-specific aid data, distinguishing between first and second stage decisions on the … selection of recipient countries and the amount of aid allocated to selected recipients. We find that the five largest donors …

We account for competition for export markets among donor countries of foreign aid by analyzing spatial dependence in … aid allocation. Employing sector-specific aid data, we find that the five largest donors react to aid giving by other … their allocation of aid for economic infrastructure and production sectors. By contrast, evidence for export competition …

The regional allocation of aid within recipient countries has been largely ignored in the aid allocation literature. We … use geocoded data on the location of aid projects financed by the World Bank and the African Development Bank within a … sample of 27 recipient countries to assess the claim of donors that their aid targets needy population segments. We also …

We assess the determinants of the wide variation in the efficiency of foreign aid activities across US-based non … fiercer competition is associated with more efficient foreign aid activities of NGOs, rather than leading to “excessive …

of donor generosity, aid effectiveness and new means of financing. However, the development orientation of world leaders … relief and private (FDI) flows. Calls for substantially scaling up regular aid had little effect, and financial innovations … critics focusing on the quality of aid. In particular, we find that the targeting of aid according to need and merit leaves …

Performance-based aid has been proposed as an alternative to the failed traditional approach whereby donors make aid … the MCC, while increasing uncertainty about the timing and amount of MCC aid appear to weaken the incentive to fight …

We assess the determinants of the wide variation in the efficiency of foreign aid activities across US-based non … competition is associated with more efficient foreign aid activities of NGOs, rather than leading to “excessive” fundraising …

” exit for almost 900 US based NGOs with overseas aid activities during the 1984-2003 period. Apart from their size and …