Foreign aid has been distributing for many decades with the ‘theoretical' expectation that it will work as a catalyst … for development by boosting domestic savings, investment and economic activities. But in ‘practice,' foreign aid has been … evidence to spot aid as ‘partly' successful. Despite multiple views and several disagreements persist regarding the success of …

while development assistance measurements comprised: bilateral and multilateral aid variables. With regard to the … growth, its interaction with foreign aid decreases (increases) economic growth. (ii) Comparing thresholds of the modifying … aid variables for which the hypothesis is either rejected or accepted reveals that higher levels of multilateral …

Hopes for development aid remain high among Western politicians and pundits, but the evidence is depressing. Foreign … aid has on average probably no effect on long-run growth. To understand the failure of many development projects, we need …

results attest to the non-negligible developmental effects of informal aid as well as how economic sanctions against donors …

This policy chapter summarises an evolving debate on the effect of foreign aid on corruption and institutions. It …. The plethora of papers explores debates sustaining the direct, conditional and indirect effects of foreign aid on … institutions. Moreover, another debate on the incidence of foreign aid distortions on corruption is also assessed in light of a …

). The context for the paper is the change in focus of the New Zealand government aid programme which occurred in 2009. The … paper starts by providing definitions of development and economic development. It then assesses international aid agency … between economic development and development more generally, before assessing the evidence on whether aid is an effective tool …

The paper argues that over the years aid has lost its initial “developmental purpose” which was to help developing … industrialisation. It also shows up in the impact of aid on structures of imports. The paper argues that the detachment of aid from its … case for aid by suggesting that whatever it can do can be done better by the market …

Linkages between foreign aid, terrorism and natural resource (fuel and iron ore) exports are investigated in this study … employed as empirical strategy. Three main foreign aid variables are used for the analysis, namely: bilateral aid, multilateral … aid and total aid. The corresponding terrorism variables employed are: domestic terrorism, transnational terrorism …

This paper examines the role of private actors in international development aid, focusing on four new actors or actors … who have in recent years taken on new roles: (1) transnational aid NGOs as a channel of delivery for public (governmental …) development aid; (2) transnational aid NGOs as development agenda-setters; (3) foundations and corporations as sources of …

Does aid contribute to human development other than by increasing growth? In doing so, is aid more or less effective in …-country aggregate evidence for an effect of aid on welfare levels. We posit that aid can enhance human development by financing public … expenditures that increase welfare indicators. Using quantile regressions, we report evidence that aid is associated with higher …