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Aid Project Proliferation and Absorptive Capacity

Roodman, David - 2007

At a time when the international dialogue surrounding development is focused on increasing the quantity of aid, this paper focuses on how the donor community can improve the quality of foreign assistance. The author discusses the problem of project proliferation, and the tendency of developing...

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Chapter 26 The economics of international aid

Kanbur, Ravi - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1559-1588). 2006

This paper presents an overview of the economics of international aid, highlighting the historical literature and the contemporary debates. It reviews the “trade-theoretic” and the “contract-theoretic” analytical literature, and the empirical and institutional literature. It demonstrates...

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Cash on Delivery Aid for Health : What Indicators Would Work Best?

Savedoff, William D.; Douglas Martel, Katherine - 2011

The idea of applying a Cash on Delivery Aid (COD Aid) approach to the health sector has been raised many times, particularly in relation to addressing malaria, HIV/AIDS, maternal health, and water. The idea of COD Aid emerged from an analysis of the basic relationships between those who fund and...

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Beyond Paris : 11 Innovations in Aid Effectiveness

Morris, Matthew; Pryke, Jonathan - 2012

The current framework for improving aid effectiveness, the ‘Paris’ agenda of harmonization and alignment, has been found lacking. Alternatives are needed. This paper highlights some examples of recent innovations in the management and delivery of development aid. Drawing upon Barder (2009)...

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Heterogeneous effects of foreign aid on local economic development

Bitzer, Jürgen; Dannemann, Bernhard Christopher; … - 2024 - This Version: December 2024

We investigate the heterogeneity of the impact of World Bank foreign aid projects on local economic development across countries, sectors and time. Using a grid-cell dataset of geo-referenced aid data, satellite night-time light imagery, and climatic and socio-economic controls, we employ a...

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Lessons for Japanese foreign aid from research on aid's impact

Addison, Tony; Tarp, Finn - 2015

Japan has an impressive history when it comes to aid, industrial policy, and infrastructure development, both as a country that saw meteoric development of its own, and as a country that has been one of the world's largest donors for decades. Looking towards an uncertain future in which...

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Foreign aid and subnational development : a grid cell analysis

Bitzer, Jürgen; Gören, Erkan - 2018 - This Version: March 2018

We examine the impact of geo-referenced World Bank development programs on subnational development using equally sized grid cells with a spatial resolution of 0.5 decimal degrees latitude x longitude as the unit of investigation. The proposed grid cell approach solves a number of endogeneity...

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Enabling civil society for sustainable development : select survey findings

Wood, Jacqueline; Fällman, Karin - 2019

Civil society and civil society organisations (CSOs) are important to development co-operation, both as implementing partners for members of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC), and as development actors in their own right. Agenda 2030 is clear on the necessity of mobilising CSOs to...

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Rethinking Health Sector Wide Approaches Through the Lens of Aid Effectiveness

McNee, Andrew - 2012

is that a divergence has developed between the underlying theory of change of health SWAps, and their implementation. The … paper argues the theory of change underlying SWAps is highly consistent with effective aid, however the practice is not … concludes with some suggested actions which may assist in realigning health aid with the underlying SWAp theory of change …

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How to Shape Development Cooperation? The Global Partnership and the Development Cooperation Forum

Janus, Heiner; Klingebiel, Stephan; Mahn, Timo - 2014

2014 will be an important milestone for shaping the policy field of development cooperation in a post-2015 context. Two central events are taking place. The Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) will convene for its first High-Level Meeting in April 2014 in Mexico...

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