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 …

capital account, even though the opening of the latter happened de facto, not de jure. With respect to China being Africa … that capital flows from China to Africa in the form of mainly economic cooperation projects, but also FDI contribute to an … 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 …

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 …

The main argument of this paper is that there is considerable heterogeneity in the way aid can shape tax performance in … Group estimator to a dataset comprising 84 developing countries from 1980 to 2013. The following results ensued: aid and … taxes comprise an equilibrium relation, with a positive long-run association between aid and taxes; causality runs from aid …

International donors usually have particular goals they want to achieve with their foreign aid, for example, poverty … alleviation. In the international aid story lobbying by potential recipient groups attempting to capture the donor's support play …

The typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of … aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter …