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Does Conditionality Mitigate the Potential Negative Effect of Aid on Revenues?

Crivelli, Ernesto - 2016

This paper assesses whether conditionality in IMF-supported programs has helped offset the potential negative effect of …-income countries - shows that growing use of revenue conditionality by low-income countries partially offsets the depressing effect of … foreign grants on tax revenue, particularly on taxes on goods and services. The impact of conditionality is strong in …

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The Anatomy of Program-for-Results : An Approach to Results-Based Aid

Gelb, Alan - 2014

The World Bank's new Program for Results (PforR) instrument is only the third instrument approved by its Board and the first to directly link disbursements to results. Designed to support programs of service delivery, the program is still in its early stages. This paper provides an overview of...

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Birds of a Feather : Fiscal Conditionality and Recipient Country Ownership in Aid Allocation

Andrianarison, Francis - 2009

This paper attempts to reconcile aid-conditionality and recipient country ownership of its development process as …

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Foreign aid and the failure of state building in Haiti under the Duvaliers, Aristide, Préval, and Martelly

Buss, Terry F. - 2013

After receiving at least US$20 billion in aid for reconstruction and development over the past 60 years, Haiti has been and remains a fragile state, one of the worse globally. The reasons for aid failure are legion but mostly relate to highly dysfunctional Haitian regimes, sometimes destructive...

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Aid and environment in Burkina Faso

Bambio, Yiriyibin - 2013

The main objective of the paper is to determine the actual aid flows that have an environmental focus in Burkina Faso. The environment literature highlights important environment issues in air, land and water, including deforestation, desertification, irreversible negative effects on...

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Does conditionality work? : a test for an innovative US aid scheme

Öhler, Hannes; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Dreher, Axel - 2011

Performance-based aid has been proposed as an alternative to the failed traditional approach whereby donors make aid conditional on the reform promises of recipient countries. However, hardly any empirical evidence exists on whether ex post rewards are effective in inducing reforms. We attempt...

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How Does Conditional Aid (Not) Work?

Ramcharan, Rodney - 2021

Does policy conditionality worsen domestic welfare, as governments are forced to attempt unpopular reforms resulting in … damaging protests, or does conditionality help implement reforms that otherwise would have been impossible? This paper analyzes …

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Do protestant aid organizations aid protestants only?

Bengtsson, Niklas (contributor) - 2008

We estimate the impact of a village-level assistance program run by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania on literacy and schooling. The programs are partly funded by official development assistance from the US and EU. Villages in northwestern Tanzania are economically isolated but are...

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Putting Paris into practice : foreign aid, national ownership, and donor alignment in Mali and Ghana

Brown, Stephen - 2016

This paper examines the application of the first two principles of the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, namely ownership and alignment, to the cases of Mali and Ghana. It argues that Western donors and recipient governments have adopted the Paris Principles mainly in form, rather...

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Is results-based aid more effective than conventional aid? : evidence from the health sector in El Salvador

Bernal, Pedro; Celhay, Pablo; Martinez, Sebastian - 2018

funds, suggesting that the results-based conditionality roughly doubled aid effectiveness. Effects are driven by increases …

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