government institutions while channeling aid and the impact of such practices on aid effectiveness in Africa. Based on an … empirical study of project aid and budget support provided to Malawi by the World Bank, the African Development Bank, and the …-term impact is more uncertain. The bypassing of local institutions results in the fragmentation of aid, a lack of coordination …

Motivated by a recent setback in the fight against child malnutrition, this study explores whether aid projects help to … reduce stunting, or impaired growth, among children in the local area. Focusing on Malawi, a country with very high stunting … prevalence and for which we have access to geo-referenced data on aid projects from a broad range of donors, we geographically …

countries. We combine geo-referenced data on the subnational allocation of World Bank aid projects to Africa over the 1995 …Motivated by the lack of sub-national empirical evidence on the relationship between aid and institutional development …, this study explores the local effects of World Bank aid on perceived institutional quality in African aid receiving …

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 …

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 …