This paper discusses past and current social policy strategies in the international aid architecture. From the 1990s …, aid strategy and policy shifted to put a stronger emphasis on human development. This accelerated with the Millennium … also assesses some of the concerns associated with the 'Paris-style' aid modalities, and discusses major challenges for the …

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 …

This paper contributes to the debate on aid effectiveness by looking at the 'how' of aid effectiveness. In other words … it provides an assessment of whether aid only filled a financing gap or whether it, in addition, helped influence the … significant aid inflows over the last two and a half decades and also recorded significant growth and poverty reduction. The paper …

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 typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of … aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter …

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 …

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 …

We explore whether foreign aid affects developing countries' creditworthiness, as proxied by the Institutional Investor … current aid reduces the likelihood of future default. We then test this hypothesis, using a data set that covers a large … number of developing countries in the 1980s and 1990s. While the size of the effect differs across types of aid and country …

Donors are concerned about how their aid is used, especially how it affects fiscal behaviour by recipient governments …. This study reviews the recent evidence on the effects of aid on government spending and tax effort in recipient countries …, concluding with a discussion of when (general) budget support is a fiscally efficient aid modality. Severe data limitations …

The typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of … aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter …