Using a new instrumental variable strategy, we examine whether bilateral development aid increases military expenditure … receiving aid. The dataset includes new data on military expenditure for 124 recipient countries over the 1975–2012 period. When … accounting for outliers, our results do not suggest that development aid affects military expenditure in the full sample. However …

The empirical literature has failed to reach consensus on the impact of aid on development outcomes based on aggregate … cross-country analysis. This study follows the current trend in the literature on the effectiveness of aid to examine the … impact of local-level aid on health outcomes. We combine data on World Bank's geo-located aid projects with three rounds of …

Development aid donors disburse aid to many developing countries. This paper shows that whether a partnership is … established early or late matters significantly for aid quantities. Donor countries allocate larger shares of their aid budgets to …. These findings imply that donors, while continuously increasing their number of recipients, have allocated smaller aid …

Although there exists a vast literature on aid efficiency (the effect of aid on GDP), and that aid allocation … determinants have been estimated, little is known about the minute details of aid allocation. This article investigates empirically … a claim repeatedly made in the past that aid donors herd. Building upon a methodology applied to financial markets, this …

This paper measures and compares fragmentation in aid sectors. Past studies focused on aggregate country data but a … sector analysis provides a better picture of fragmentation. We start by counting the number of aid projects in the developing … of aid projects have more than 2 000 in a single year. In parallel to this boom of aid projects, there has been a major …

appreciation of the local currencies vis à vis the RMB, while no such effect appears for aid ows from China. The former two …

such efforts. First, aid disbursements do not generally follow "root causes" rhetoric. The sectoral distribution of aid to … that aid's capacity to deter migration is small at best. Aid can only encourage economic growth, employment, and security … in emigration. Third, this evidence implies that donors could achieve greater impact by leveraging foreign aid not to …

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), trade, aid, remittances and … findings showed that, in the short-run, FDI, trade, aid, remittances and tourism had positive significant effects on welfare …, even under terrorism and militancy. However, in the long run, only aid and remittances had significant effects while FDI …

organizations. We test this theory empirically by examining how the United States uses bilateral aid and IMF loans to buy other … 1960-2015 period, our results show that states allied with the US receive more bilateral aid when voting in line with the …