different types of volatility; remittances are found to be a less volatile source of external finance than FDI and ODA that are … counter-cyclical and stabilizing, thus serving to steady the recipient economy in times of economic downturns. ODA appears to …

ODA disbursements to the LDCs and how it impacts on LDCs economic prosperity. Using both static and dynamic panel … techniques, we find that global financial crisis in OECD-EU donor countries are causes for the significant downside of ODA flows … to the LDCs. Consequently it adversely affects through the various transmission channels (e.g. ODA disbursements …

countries. Official Development Assistance (ODA) provided by Japan since 1990 has been more closely correlated with the growth … regional perspective, some major donors including Japan have been as selective in delivering their aid as some countries well …-known for their selective aid delivery, such as Denmark. Japan has provided higher aid for the countries with better policy and …

This paper examines whether Official Development Assistance (ODA) is disproportionately allocated to countries that … apply the MDG-sensitivity criteria for aid allocation, the results indicate that ODA allocation since the Millennium … Declaration has become more MDG-sensitive – ODA is given to countries that need it most. While such trends in aid disbursements …

financial conditions are negatively linked to official development assistance (ODA). It finds empirical evidence that US ODA has …) is associated with a roughly 0.01 percentage point decline in US ODA expressed as a share of GNI. Furthermore, an …&P500) is associated with a decrease in US ODA by about $2.78 billion. Informed by the empirical results in this paper, and …