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Fielding, David; Mavrotas, George - 2005

Issues related to the volatility of aid flows are now becoming crucial in view of their relevance to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. The paper examines aid volatility using data for 66 aid recipients over the period 1973-2002. We improve upon earlier work in this important...

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An empirical exploration of relationships between official development assistance (ODA) and advances in water and sanitation subsectors

El Khanji, Souha - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-19

This paper explores aid effectiveness by studying the effect of aid, aid volatility, and key development indicators, focusing on safe access to water and sanitation (W&S) in both urban and rural areas. Despite the importance of official development assistance (ODA) for these two subsectors,...

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Selectivity on aid modality: Determinants of budget support from multilateral donors

Clist, Paul; Isopi, Alessia; Morrissey, Oliver - 2011

Since the late 1990s a selection on policy approach to aid was advocated such that more aid should be allocated to countries with good policies. A number of donors accepted this recommendation, including the World Bank, but there is little evidence that this has occurred. Donors, including the...

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Consequences of aid volatility for macroeconomic management and aid effectiveness

Hudson, John - 2012

This paper reviews both the literature on aid volatility and also adds to that literature. In general, the focus of this literature has been on the volatility of overall aid, while we focus more on the volatility of the individual aid sectors, e.g., education aid. In doing this, detailed use is...

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Aid allocation volatility to small island states

Clarke, Matthew; Fry, Tim; Mihajilo, Sandra - 2007

Aid is an important resource for developing countries. Many small island states (including those in the Pacific) are highly reliant on aid to supplement meagre government resources and other foreign capital inflows. This paper investigates the conditional volatility of aid (for bilateral aid...

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Global development goal setting as a policy tool for global governance: Intended and unintended consequences

Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko - 2013

priority global objectives. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the most prominent example of such goals, but many … influencing international development strategies and action. It analyses the MDGs as an example to argue that global goals …

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What are the implications of the global crisis and its aftermath for developing countries, 2010-2020?

Sumner, Andy; Ballantyne, Joe; Curry, Andrew - 2010

Development Goals (MDGs) to 2015 and afterwards. Futureproofing the MDGs is about thinking how future(s) might impact the Goals … outcomes for growth, poverty reduction and the MDGs for different developing economies, against the background of the post …

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Are the MDGs priority in development strategies and aid programmes? Only few are!

Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko - 2008

The gap between strong political commitment to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and slow progress towards … emphasise governance as an important means of achieving the MDGs, but they focus mostly on economic governance rather than on … democratic (participatory and equitable) processes. Since the key motivation for the MDGs as reflected in the Millennium …

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The determinants of selection and allocation decisions for health assistance: Which role do health indicators play?

Stepping, Katharina - 2012

This paper analyzes the selection and allocation decisions of major and like-minded bilateral donors as regards development assistance for health for the period of 1990 till 2007. The central question is to what extent health indicators, reflecting the health objectives stated in the Millennium...

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Do poor health conditions lead to higher allocation of development assistance?

Stepping, Katharina - 2012

This paper analyzes the targeting of development assistance for health across countries in a multivariate regression framework, based on data from 22 bilateral donors to 160 recipients between 1990 and 2007. Donor characteristics, recipient characteristics and the donor-recipient-relationship...

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