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 paper contributes to the debate on aid effectiveness by looking at the 'how' of aid effectiveness. In other words … it provides an assessment of whether aid only filled a financing gap or whether it, in addition, helped influence the … significant aid inflows over the last two and a half decades and also recorded significant growth and poverty reduction. The paper …

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 … 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 …

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 …

The diversion of development aid to the recipient's military may be one explanation why aid is often found to be … ineffective in promoting economic growth and development. Previous studies have not derived the causal effects of development aid … on military expenditure. Using a new instrumental variable strategy, we examine whether bilateral development aid …

The diversion of development aid to the recipient’s military may be one explanation why aid is often found to be … ineffective in promoting economic growth and development. Previous studies have not derived the causal effects of development aid … on military expenditure. Using a new instrumental variable strategy, we examine whether bilateral development aid …

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 in that year. We thereby want to assess to … what extent donor coordination, free-riding, selectivity, specialization, and common donor motivations drive bilateral aid …

This paper discusses the recent history of education aid policy. It highlights an important shift in policy thinking in … the international aid architecture that has dominated the global education aid agenda since the early 1990s. It argues …