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The political economy of China's aid policy in Africa

Pehnelt, Gernot - 2007

In recent years, China has become a major power on the African continent, not only with respect to trade and investment, but also as a donor of development aid. Although there is no accurate measure of the exact size of China's aid program, since China rather underestimates the volume in...

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Project Aid or Budget Aid? The Interests of Governments and Financial Institutions

Hefeker, Carsten - 2004

The paper compares different aid policy instruments and their effect on the target group. Starting from a situation where interest groups compete for the resources of the government, international financial institutions aim to change the policy outcome. They can either directly support one group...

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The development and implementation of IMF and World Bank conditionality

Dreher, Axel - 2002

The paper presents a detailed description of IMF and World Bank conditionality and tries to explain changes in this … conditionality over time as well as differences between the two institutions. Using panel data it is shown that the number of Fund … World Bank conditionality as well as interruptions of IMF programs in the recipient countries. Compliance with World Bank …

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On the non-contractual nature of donor-recipient interaction in development assistance

Murshed, S. Mansoob - 2008

This paper analyses three issues in strategic donor-recipient interaction motivated by the complexity of the rationale underlying aid. The first is when we have several principals with conflicting objectives. Any one principal cannot offer high powered incentives to the agent to carry out their...

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Analysis of deviations and delays in aid disbursements

Odedokun, Matthew - 2003

The study seeks to identify donor-specific factors that cause donors to delay aid disbursement, and to apply a double standard in dealing with the non-compliance of a recipient with regard to aid conditionalities, a practice that promotes uncertainty in the receipt of aid. Annual panel data over...

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Recipient governments' willingness and ability to meet aid conditionality: The effectiveness of aid finance and conditions

Morrissey, Oliver - 2002

aid will not ensure sustained reform. In this sense conditionality does not work. This ignores the fact that donors …

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Harmonisation and alignment: The double-edged swords of budget support and decentralised aid administration

Winckler Andersen, Ole; Therkildsen, Ole - 2007

The Paris declaration of 2005 on aid effectiveness is now part of the international consensus. It holds that increased use of budget support combined with decentralised aid administration will lead to transaction costs reductions (through better donor harmonisation of aid) and to enhanced local...

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Loans or grants?

Cohen, Daniel; Jacquet, Pierre; Reisen, Helmut - 2007

. Finally a performance-based conditionality should replace the traditional policy-based one in order to cope with several …

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Allocation of EU aid towards ACP-countries

Wolf, Susanna; Spoden, Dominik - 2000

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Evaluation of budget support in Zambia: implementation, direct effects and political economy

Leiderer, Stefan; Faust, Jörg - 2012

This study - commissioned by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) – evaluates the direct effects (i.e. the direct and induced outputs) of budget support in Zambia. It forms part of a joint international evaluation of budget support in Zambia. The report focuses on...

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