responsiveness of employment to growth. The role of development aid in this context is problematic. Across Africa more aid went to … countries with a low employment intensity of growth. The paper proposes a new approach to aid and poverty in Africa, one that …

internationalization and economic diversification among Pakistan's private businesses. A related structural reason for these predicaments …+ and related trade diversification programs signify the most significant parts of the EU-Pakistani partnership, and mirror …

This paper analyses macroeconomic aspects of exit from aid-dependence. By 'exit from aid', we mean substantial and … similar and very high degrees of dependence on international aid but followed dramatically different trajectories of aid …. We find that the likelihood of exit from aid increases significantly with macroeconomic stability in the sense of …

We explore whether foreign aid affects developing countries' creditworthiness, as proxied by the Institutional Investor … current aid reduces the likelihood of future default. We then test this hypothesis, using a data set that covers a large … number of developing countries in the 1980s and 1990s. While the size of the effect differs across types of aid and country …

Does official aid pave the road for private foreign investment or does it suffocate private initiative by diverting … resources towards unproductive activities? In this paper we explore this question using data for a large number of developing … marginal effect of aid on private foreign investment is close to zero. Surprisingly, however, the effect is strictly positive …

Japan has an impressive history when it comes to aid, industrial policy, and infrastructure development, both as a … aid is questioned, few actors can offer more useful experience. Restoring structural transformation as a donor priority …, and recognizing the critical role it played in the development of Japan, is a vital step towards making the real gains 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 …

This empirical study investigates foreign aid’s effectiveness in stimulating growth by considering economic policies … and the factors that influenced aid flow in Sri Lanka during the period of 1980-2008. For both analyses, a single …-equation instrumental variable estimation method is employed. The results derived from this study suggest that aid is positively associated …

Using data from 1988 to 2007, we examine to what extent bilateral aid flows of an individual donor to a country depend … on aid flows from all other bilateral and multilateral donors to that country. We thereby want to assess to what extent … donor coordination, free-riding, selectivity, specialization, and common donor motivations drive bilateral aid allocation as …

donors and levels of funding in the sector; (3) document which subsectors of the environment are receiving more resources …