foreign aid. This paper analyses foreign assistance through four main facets namely: the link between aid, security and growth …, aid effectiveness in Pakistan, and priorities for aid policy reform in the country. The empirical literature on the impact … of aid on economic development in Pakistan is inconclusive due to aid being fragmented and volatile. The donors have …

A new aid rhetoric emphasises the selective allocation of otherwise unconditional funds in support of recipients …-wrapped packages. This line of thinking is supported by both the empirical literature on aid conditionality as well as studies … interaction with donors in such a regime, conformity in policy-choice is a de?nite possibility. The lure of generous aid might …

This paper seeks to articulate the perspectives from Bangladesh as an aid recipient country on the evolving … international aid system and more particularly on the Accra agenda. Based on secondary information from various sources including … this paper briefly discusses the changing aid scenario in the context of Bangladesh and highlights some of the key issues …

Although the literature on aid effectiveness is vast, most of it is based on cross-country studies and does not address …

Where imports are financed predominantly by rents from resource extraction or aid, the revenue generated by tariffs is … illusory. Reveue earned by the tariff is offset by a reduction in the real value of aid and resource rents. Revenue is however … moved between accounts in the government budget which, in the case of aid, may reduce the burden of donor conditionality. We …

the one hand and policies responsive to the demands of peacebuilding on the other. The preferential allocation of aid to … “good performers,” in the name of maximizing its payoff in terms of economic growth, militates against aid to fragile and … conflict and build peace, but the difficulties that prompted donors to become more selective in aid allocation remain all too …

-related external flows in the case of Bolivia. Riding on high international prices for its major exports, and on fiscal … domination by trade, mainly through revenues from hydrocarbon exports. Our findings support the idea that the provision of … community through aid for trade (AfT), which has instead been worryingly dwindling in recent years. Finally, we argue that MDG8 …