Most rich countries developed without aid, and this 'self-development' has some intrinsic advantages. In today's massively unequal world, however, such an approach would imply very low levels of human development for several generations for many poor countries. Aid can therefore usefully be...

This research builds a vector Autoregression model of the New Zealand economy and then analyses its dynamic responses to a number of shocks originating from both internal and external sources. In particular, impulse responses from a foreign output shock, terms of trade shock, shocks to domestic...

In 2006 the Center for Global Development's report 'When Will We Ever Learn? Improving lives through impact evaluation' bemoaned the lack of rigorous impact evaluations. The authors of the present paper researched international organizations and countries including Mexico, Colombia, South...