party, and considers what the nature of inter-governmental relations implies for donors operating in South Africa's urban … are protected by a relatively strong and well-managed department of finance. Moreover, both donors and the national … government steer money towards Cape Town because they know it can deliver on its obligations. …

effect is negative. Third, aid from other donors does not give rise to a displacement effect for a given donor …-recipient trade relationship. This paper also makes comparisons among donors and finds that aid has a positive and significant effect … on most donors' export levels. …

justify aid to fragile states both through altruism and self-interest. But, with some exceptions, donors have appeared at the … both will and capacity. Failure demands constructive engagement by donors, in some cases to save people in weak states from …, but isolating the regime, as some donors have chosen to do, will only perpetuate the plight of the population. Rwanda …

panel data estimation. On an aggregated scale small donors 'exploit' the large donors: large donors give more resources than … their 'fair share', i.e. their income weight in the group of donors. However, this picture is not true for the finance and … country, the pro-foreign aid stance of a government and the government size. Donor countries are not much affected in their …

in funding are more connected to other factors such as the size of governments, the state of development of a country and …

One reason donors provide foreign aid is to support their exports to aid-recipient countries. Time series data for …. Interestingly, we find strong evidence of crowding out between bilateral donors in the sense that bilateral aid from other EU …

Haiti, and who are totally self-interested - Haiti's fatal flaw. Donors can go far to improve aid effectiveness, but Haiti …

'traditional' donors and a new focus on selectivity in aid disbursement, as well as 'new' donors and South-South co … provision. This paper assesses the past effectiveness of aid, comments on new aid donors and outlines some of the key arguments …