This paper contributes to the debate on aid effectiveness by looking at the 'how' of aid effectiveness. In other words … it provides an assessment of whether aid only filled a financing gap or whether it, in addition, helped influence the … significant aid inflows over the last two and a half decades and also recorded significant growth and poverty reduction. The paper …

This paper contributes to the debate on aid effectiveness by looking at the 'how' of aid effectiveness. In other words … it provides an assessment of whether aid only filled a financing gap or whether it, in addition, helped influence the … significant aid inflows over the last two and a half decades and also recorded significant growth and poverty reduction. The paper …

subsidies. This is despite the fact that energy subsidies exceed all bilateral aid in 59 per cent of recipient countries. The …

This paper studies the political economy of relief aid allocation using empirical evidence from relief programs after a … and international aid agencies. Aid allocation was generally more likely in areas with a higher need for aid, but there … were substantial differences between aid allocation by the government and by international aid agencies. The likelihood of …

subsidies. This is despite the fact that energy subsidies exceed all bilateral aid in 59 per cent of recipient countries. The …

The political economy of aid agencies is driven by incomplete information and multiple competing objectives and … confounded by principal-agent and collective-action problems. Policies to improve aid rely too much on a planning paradigm that … tries to ignore, rather than change, the political economy of aid. A considered combination of market mechanisms, networked …

This paper studies the political economy of relief aid allocation using empirical evidence from relief programs after a … and international aid agencies. Aid allocation was generally more likely in areas with a higher need for aid, but there … were substantial differences between aid allocation by the government and by international aid agencies. The likelihood of …