Millennium Development Goals. It explores the economic behaviour of countries affected by conflict and identifies the impact on …

will be measured in human lives, increased inequalities, violations of human rights and threats to peace. International aid …

The current consensus objective of development aid in the international community is to reduce poverty in general and … growth as the principal means to this end. But the policy objective of aid can be defined in many ways, and has in fact … means for advancing those ends. This paper argues that more attention should be given to conflict prevention as a policy …

Cross?country econometric studies of aid effectiveness are numerous and often criticized. Relying on results of those … which seem the most relevant and robust, this paper argues that aid is leading to poverty reduction, in particular in … vulnerable countries. It examines the main methodological challenges faced by these studies, related to the definition aid, to …

This paper surveys recent research on aid and growth. It also provides an overview of research on inter-recipient aid … allocation. The overall focus of the paper is on the relevance of these issues for poverty-efficient aid, defined as a pattern of … inter-recipient aid allocation which maximises poverty reduction. It identifies a range of povertyreducing criteria on which …

This paper summarises research on aid allocation and effectiveness, highlighting the current findings of recent … research on aid allocation to fragile states. Fragile states are defined by the donor community as those with either critically … of research and analysis on how aid should and is being allocated across all developing countries. Various aid allocation …