This paper surveys recent research on aid and growth. It also provides an overview of research on inter-recipient aid … allocation. The overall focus of the paper is on the relevance of these issues for poverty-efficient aid, defined as a pattern of … inter-recipient aid allocation which maximises poverty reduction. It identifies a range of povertyreducing criteria on which …

Foreign aid’s effectiveness in promoting economic growth remains mired in controversy.We examine the impact of the … volatility of aid on economic growth, controlling for the level of aid. A four-year panel analysis is conducted encompassing 155 … countries over the period 1966-2001. We find that once the volatility of aid is controlled for, aid has a positive impact on …

We use an excludable instrument to test the effect of foreign aid on economic growth in a sample of 96 recipient … receiving aid. The results show that fractionalization increases donors' aid budgets, representing the over-time variation of … our instrument, while the probability of receiving aid introduces variation across recipient countries. Controlling for …

We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Donor countries … ́political motives might reduce the effectiveness of conditionality, channel aid to inferior projects or affect the way aid is … spent in other ways, reduce the aid bureaucracyś effort, and might impact the power structure in the recipient country. We …

We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Specifically, we … test whether the effect of aid on economic growth is reduced by the share of years a country has served on the United … Nations Security Council (UNSC) in the period the aid has been committed, which provides quasi-random variation in aid. Our …

Development aid from the West may lead to adverse growth effects in the global South due to the neglected cultural … belief systems. Therefore, I hypothesize that the expected effect of development aid on the economic growth of recipients is … impaired by cultural differences between western donors and aid recipients. I test this hypothesis empirically by augmenting an …

We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Donor countries … political motives might reduce the effectiveness of conditionality, channel aid to inferior projects, reduce the aid bureaucracy … testing whether the effect of aid on economic growth is reduced by the share of years a country has served on the United …