This paper examines several indicators of effective development aid, focusing on the contributions of major bilateral donors. The empirical analyses of selectivity for effective aid delivery revealed that, taking a long-term and regional perspective, some major donors including Japan have been...

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Pathways to development -- How governments work -- Civilization -- Human capital development -- Human capital and national security -- Training -- Militarization -- Education in the third world -- Education in the United States -- Support -- Measurement --...

The notion that foreign aid harms the institutions of recipient governments remains prevalent. We combine new disaggregated aid data and various metrics of political institutions to re-examine this relationship. Long-run cross-section and alternative dynamic panel estimators show a small...