Does official aid pave the road for private foreign investment or does it suffocate private initiative by diverting … marginal effect of aid on private foreign investment is close to zero. Surprisingly, however, the effect is strictly positive …

Does official aid pave the road for private foreign investment or does it suffocate private initiative by diverting … marginal effect of aid on private foreign investment is close to zero. Surprisingly, however, the effect is strictly positive …

Motivated by the lack of sub-national empirical evidence on the relationship between aid and institutional development …, this study explores the local effects of World Bank aid on perceived institutional quality in African aid receiving … countries. We combine geo-referenced data on the subnational allocation of World Bank aid projects to Africa over the 1995 …

This paper proposes that aid flowing to smaller (less populous) countries has a negative impact on the quality of … institutions in terms of performance and policy as opposed to that flowing to larger countries, where evidence suggests that the … impacts are positive. The analysis here suggests that the level of development, the size of an economy, and the level of aid …

This paper discusses past and current social policy strategies in the international aid architecture. From the 1990s …, aid strategy and policy shifted to put a stronger emphasis on human development. This accelerated with the Millennium … also assesses some of the concerns associated with the 'Paris-style' aid modalities, and discusses major challenges for the …

of international institutions, where governments may exploit their influence in one organization to gain leverage over …