countries, an idea that captivates policymakers in international aid and trade diplomacy. A lengthy literature and recent data … development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …

-disaster development assistance to Haiti. We find that the effects of matching new seasonal agricultural jobs in the US with Haitian … and the potential for policies of this kind to complement more traditional forms of development and humanitarian …

This paper investigates the impact of the US and China‘s foreign aid to Africa on trade flows between donor and … aids to African partners. Interestingly, China‘s aid shows a positive effect on its total volume of trade and imports from … Africa, while the aid from the US exhibits little impact on the US-Africa total trade and its imports from Africa. A possible …

This book offers an explanation of the determinants of China and India's development cooperation in Africa. After … collecting over one thousand development cooperation projects by China and India in Africa between 2000 and the present day with … are combined is it evident that China and India disbursed high levels of development cooperation to some African countries …

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 thought of as a necessary but 'second-best option'. The challenge then …