We develop a political-economic model of foreign aid allocation. Each ethnic group in the donor country lobbies the … government to allocate more aid to its country of origin, and the government accepts political contributions from lobby groups … solution of the political equilibrium. We also examine the effects of changes in the degree of corruption, aid fatigue, and …

We address the pitfalls of averaging by exploiting the longitudinal variation in aid to identify sudden and sharp … increases in aid flows. Focusing on specific events, we test if aid accelerations correspond to policies and shocks in the … changes and wars are significant predictors of aid accelerations. Disaggregating aid flows by donors, we find indicative …

Foreign aid is one of the most important policy tools that rich countries use for helping poor countries to improve … has generated much controversy. This paper presents descriptive statistics which show that foreign aid to very poor … countries accounts for very little of total global aid; reviews the evidence that foreign aid is often determined by the …

We address the pitfalls of averaging by exploiting the longitudinal variation in aid to identify sudden and sharp … increases in aid flows. Focusing on specific events, we test if aid accelerations correspond to policies and shocks in the … changes and wars are significant predictors of aid accelerations. Disaggregating aid flows by donors, we find indicative …