exports from Germany to the aid recipient countries. The findings indicate that in the long run each dollar of German aid is …This paper uses an augmented gravity model of trade to investigate the link between German development aid and sectoral … associated with an average increase of 0.83 US dollars of German exports of goods. The effect varies by sector and the sectors …

channels of official and private German aid across a large sample of recipient countries in 2005-2007. Our findings strongly … and merit are taken into account. Yet, the German case does not reveal unambiguously superior aid channels. Better …