The study examines the official bilateral donors’ current aid practice for private sector development (PSD). In … particular, it reviews the donors’ major instruments and channels for aid delivery and the extent to which official flows have … firms. The paper concludes that despite the prominent position occupied by NGOs in aid delivery, there is still a pertinent …

external debt-servicing constraint, as well as external aid, on government expenditure allocation in sub-Saharan Africa …

Foreign aid donors and recipient governments often have conflicting objectives. Foreign donors may attempt to influence … the policies of recipient governments by offering aid or threatening to suspend aid to sovereign states. This paper … considers the credibility of such inducements and the conditioning of aid flows on policy behavior by national governments in …

A windfall of natural resource revenue (or foreign aid) faces government with choices of how to manage public debt …