The number of NGOs in Azerbaijan is still approximately 3100, of which 80% are registered and roughly 600 are active and visible. The government continues to mistrust NGOs and would like to exert greater control over the sector. Despite the pressures, initiatives of the forces interested in...

China's development model challenges the approaches of traditional Western donors like the World Bank. We argue that both aim at stability, but differ in the norms propagated to achieve that. Using fixed effects and IV estimations, we analyze a broad range of subnational stability measures in...

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...