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 …

grid cell approach solves a number of endogeneity problems discussed in the aid effectiveness literature that make it … difficult to identify the true effect of foreign aid on development outcomes due to the presence of unobserved heterogeneity … association between foreign aid and economic growth, measurement errors, and endogenous sample selection bias. The estimates …

It is widely believed that foreign aid may help conflict-affected countries to recover after the settlement of … conflicts. However, the available empirical evidence supporting this view largely neglects the heterogeneous nature of aid … post-conflict aid differs between specific sectors. Our focus is on social and economic infrastructure which is most likely …

This study assesses the role of foreign aid in reducing the hypothetically negative impact of terrorism on trade using … GMM estimations with forward orthogonal deviations. Bilateral, multilateral and total aid dynamics are employed whereas …. First, while bilateral aid has no significant effect on trade, multilateral and total aids have positive impacts. Second …

, foreign aid should not orient developing countries towards industrialisation in the perspective of Kuznets but in the view of … on inequality in foreign aid policy will lead to more sustainable development outcomes. Inter alia: mitigate short … post-2015 development challenges and provide foreign aid policy instruments with which discussed objectives can be achieved …

, foreign aid should not orient developing countries towards industrialisation in the perspective of Kuznets but in the view of … on inequality in foreign aid policy will lead to more sustainable development outcomes. Inter alia: mitigate short … post-2015 development challenges and provide foreign aid policy instruments with which discussed objectives can be achieved …

This paper studies the link between "Aid and Development" in Pakistan and tries to analyze the role of foreign …

Foreign aid has been distributing for many decades with the ‘theoretical' expectation that it will work as a catalyst … for development by boosting domestic savings, investment and economic activities. But in ‘practice,' foreign aid has been … evidence to spot aid as ‘partly' successful. Despite multiple views and several disagreements persist regarding the success of …

while development assistance measurements comprised: bilateral and multilateral aid variables. With regard to the … growth, its interaction with foreign aid decreases (increases) economic growth. (ii) Comparing thresholds of the modifying … aid variables for which the hypothesis is either rejected or accepted reveals that higher levels of multilateral …