patronage spending. If aid ends up in the pockets of political elites and their ethno-regional networks, this may exacerbate … allocation of Chinese development finance projects to Africa is geographically matched with survey data for 50,520 respondents …

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 …

Motivated by a recent setback in the fight against child malnutrition, this study explores whether aid projects help to … prevalence and for which we have access to geo-referenced data on aid projects from a broad range of donors, we geographically … match spatial data on 778 aid project sites of 22 different donors with anthropometric and background data on 26 …

substitution of technical assistance by unconditioned budget aid would be counter-productive with respect to poverty …

consumption. Meanwhile, aid for the low income countries is extremely volatile, and under certain circumstances, the volatile aid … amplifies the consumption volatility. This document examines whether it is possible that the volatile aid yields high … reveals that the strongly influential aid disbursements yield a considerably large fluctuation in consumption. …

countries, notably in Africa. Much of the controversy was concerned with the question whether the informal sector promotes …

assistance by unconditioned budget aid would be counter-productive with respect to poverty-oriented development policies. …

. The paper reviews growth determinants and growth constraints in Africa and discusses how aid can help relieve the …The question discussed in this in this paper is whether foreign aid can help accelerate growth in African countries … constraints. Issues covered are the choice of aid modalities, donor coordination, conditionality, and international integration. A …

Numerous econometric studies fail to detect a significant and robust relationship between international aid and … relation between aid and its effectiveness in a multi-sector multi-household Computable General Equilibrium (CGE … exporting sectors. While the model simulates the effects of additional aid in Zambia it can be used as a blueprint for other …

This article is based on field studies in rural West Africa. It concentrates on the socio-structural effects of … development aid in the long run, in contrast to numerous available evaluation reports on the short-run effects of development …. Development aid has become an important political and economic factor in most African countries. Its financial impact often …