This paper analyses the role of foreign aid to assist development in two oil-rich countries: Indonesia and Nigeria …. This paper seeks to understand the way foreign aid provided assistance to transform Indonesia from a 'fragile' state in the … Tragedy'. This paper argues that foreign aid could help not only to finance development, but also to navigate policy makers …

the UK Department for International Development: the Facility for Oil Sector Transparency and Reform in Nigeria, and the … Ghana Oil and Gas for Inclusive Growth programme in Ghana. The paper outlines five lessons learned from these examples …

This paper analyses the role of foreign aid to assist development in two oil-rich countries: Indonesia and Nigeria …. This paper seeks to understand the way foreign aid provided assistance to transform Indonesia from a .fragile. state in the …

innovative and more flexible financing methods worth considering. Official Development Aid remains critical, but blended finance …

We review the aid effectiveness literature to assess whether foreign aid given to areas of limited statehood can be … expected to promote economic and social outcomes in the recipient country. We distinguish different types of aid, motives for … granting it, recipient country policies and characteristics, and modalities by which aid is delivered, as these factors have …

he record of aid to fragile and poorly-performing states is the real test of aid effectiveness. Rich countries can … justify aid to fragile states both through altruism and self-interest. But, with some exceptions, donors have appeared at the … their leaders, and in all cases to save the states from circumstances which they cannot control. This paper examines the aid …

clear policy commitment and guidance to improve further …

spectrum of development policy topics involving structural change …

donor countries as exogenous, this article is the first to explore the determinants of aid donorship. We hypothesize that … democratic institutions reduce poor countries’ likelihood to initiate aid giving. On the contrary, the leadership of poor … authoritarian regimes face fewer constraints that would hinder these governments to reap the benefits of a development aid program …