This paper discusses the recent history of education aid policy. It highlights an important shift in policy thinking in … the international aid architecture that has dominated the global education aid agenda since the early 1990s. It argues …

We investigate whether estimates of the effect of aid on growth are influenced by authors' careers. We collect data on … on the reported magnitude of aid effectiveness, and on the degree of selectivity in which results are reported. On … with aid agencies. …

the world. Using AidData for 2000-13, this paper examines the effects of aid to productive sectors on manufacturing growth … literature where there is controversy over aid effectiveness at the macro level. The findings also have policy implications for … allocation of aid between sectors by making rational trade-offs related to their amount and quality, with emphasis on productive …

patronage spending. If aid ends up in the pockets of political elites and their ethno-regional networks, this may exacerbate …

Motivated by the lack of sub-national empirical evidence on the relationship between aid and institutional development …, this study explores the local effects of World Bank aid on perceived institutional quality in African aid receiving … countries. We combine geo-referenced data on the subnational allocation of World Bank aid projects to Africa over the 1995 …

We analyse the relationship between income volatility and inequality and the conditional role played by aid and … inequality, and that the poorest people are the most exposed to these fluctuations. However, while aid and remittances do not … seem to have a clear direct impact on inequality, we uncover robust evidence which suggests that aid helps to dampen the …

Conditional Cash Transfers are increasingly used by development aid agencies to reduce the incentives for migration …

A substantial amount of aid to developing countries is given to the government, or goes through the budget, meaning it … studies on the effects of aid on government spending neglect variable time-series properties, cross-country (recipient …) heterogeneity, and the potential for cross-country correlation. This paper examines the impact of foreign aid and taxes on …

Empirical studies on the effectiveness of aid to the water, sanitation, and hygiene sector (WASH aid) have focused … primarily on access to these services as the benchmark for evaluating the effectiveness of aid in this sector. Given the … importance of WASH services for public health outcomes, the effectiveness of WASH aid should also be evaluated in terms of its …