Aid is still an important feature of the development landscape. Fragile states, in particular, have the greatest … development needs but due to their poor governance they are the least likely countries to use aid effectively to meet their … development challenges. In this paper, we explore which fragile states receive most aid flows, which donors are particularly …

Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political … purposes. The vulnerability of Chinese aid to political capture has prompted speculation that it may be economically … ineffective, or even harmful. We test these claims by estimating the effect of Chinese aid on subnational economic development …

Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political … purposes. The vulnerability of Chinese aid to political capture has prompted speculation that it may be economically … ineffective, or even harmful. We test these claims by estimating the effect of Chinese aid on subnational economic development …

the labour-intensive light-manufacturing sectors. Further, expanding the definition of international aid could induce more …

globalization and 'aid for trade', and this is one of the first papers to provide an economic rationale. I exploit the 1967-1975 war …

costs, pursuit of policy reforms to support trade in services, and a greater focus of aid for trade on trade cost reduction …