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

Health Surveys with spatio-temporal data from AidData on the precise location and timing of aid projects in Nigeria for the … recently increased the amount of official development aid specifically focused on restoring and maintaining education in less …-developed states. While much attention has been paid to the effect of aid on educational enrolment at the country level, there is a …

Does official aid pave the road for private foreign investment or does it suffocate private initiative by diverting … marginal effect of aid on private foreign investment is close to zero. Surprisingly, however, the effect is strictly positive …

The paper explores the relationships between economic freedom on the one side and development aid and IMF credit as … approximation for conditional aid on the other side. After a short review of current literature on the issue of economic development …, economic freedom, aid, and IMF credit, the paper develops a simple panel regression model to evaluate the relationship between …

Why would bilateral donors intermediate aid through a multilateral and not extend aid directly? This paper suggests a … regressions with bilateral-pair, fixed effects to model aid allocation decisions. The results confirm that politics is important … for bilateral donors but also that aid fragmentation and strategic behavior affect aid allocation. Multilaterals solve …

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 …

This paper examines the concept of global public goods (GPGs) and in that context explores the extent of aid (ODA …) presently being diverted to GPG provision and whether such diversion skews aid-flows towards some recipients and whether … diverting aid to GPG provision crowds out aid for conventional development activities. These are examined on the basis of OECD …