Focusing on seven bilateral donors over a 25 year period, the paper answers 4 questions related to aid allocation practice. Questions one and two examine allocation differences between donors and time periods. Questions three and four relate to changes in poverty and policy selectivity. To...

Focusing on seven bilateral donors over a 25 year period, the paper answers 4 questions related to aid allocation practice. Questions one and two examine allocation differences between donors and time periods. Questions three and four relate to changes in poverty and policy selectivity. To...

1999 wurde die so genannte HIPC-Initiative zugunsten der ärmsten Länder (Highly Indebted Poor Countries), von der Weltbank und dem IWF 1996 ins Leben gerufen, erheblich erweitert. Die lnitiative zielt darauf ab, die Bekämpfung der Armut ins Zentrum der internationalen...

While we know a lot about how countries become prosperous, we have only begun to understand how aid contributes to economic growth and poverty reduction. The development record is mixed and no robust association between the volume of aid and development performance has been discovered. The...

This paper makes two main contributions. First, we examine the long-run effect of foreign aid on domestic output for 59 developing countries using heterogeneous panel cointegration techniques to control for omitted variable and endogeneity bias to detect possible cross-country differences in the...

1999 wurde die so genannte HIPC-Initiative zugunsten der ärmsten Länder (Highly Indebted Poor Countries), von der Weltbank und dem IWF 1996 ins Leben gerufen, erheblich erweitert. Die lnitiative zielt darauf ab, die Bekämpfung der Armut ins Zentrum der internationalen...