This paper empirically investigates the impact of foreign aid on economic growth and poverty alleviation in India using annual data over the period 1975/76 to 2016/17. We employ the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach advocated by Pesaran et al (2001), which is more appropriate for...

Trust is an often overlooked socioeconomic factor when determining the extent to which international development organizations empower the financially impoverished populations that they serve. Nevertheless, it can be a vital factor for such organizations in their attempts to foster poverty...

We decompose the relationship between food aid and conflict into the channels through which food aid can affect conflict. We address questions of methodological choice and estimation techniques for empirical studies. Our review of the empirical evidence on the effect of food aid on conflict...

It is puzzling that India, which has a large domestic constituency of people suffering from underdevelopment, chronic poverty and mal-governance, is emerging as an important aid donor. With the intension of understanding why poor countries provide foreign aid, this article is the first to...

The targeting of foreign aid within recipient countries is largely unexplored territory. We help close this gap in empirical research on aid allocation by employing Poisson estimations on the determinants of the World Bank’s choice of project locations at the district level in India. The...

Questions of aid allocation have long focused on discerning the altruistic, self-interested or meritocratic motivation of development donors. Less attention has been paid to the interests and agency of recipient state governments and even less to the interests and agency of constituencies within...

China and India increasingly provide aid and credit to developing countries. This paper explores whether India uses these financial instruments to compete for geopolitical and commercial influence with China (and vice versa). To do so, we build a new geocoded dataset of Indian...

China and India increasingly provide aid and credit to developing countries. This paper explores whether India uses these financial instruments to compete for geopolitical and commercial in uence with China (and vice versa). To do so, we build a new geocoded dataset of Indian government-financed...

The economic cooperation and interdependence among the countries is accomplished by trade, aid, and investment. Among these foreign aid plays a significant role in the socio-economic development of emerging and developing economies. The most common type of foreign aid is Official Development...

We examine how the source of foreign aid affects the composition of the recipient government's spending. Does the source of aid - bilateral or miltilateral - influence ricipient policy-makers' choice between development and nondevelopment expenditure? We depart from previous literature by...