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 … objective of development aid and explores the implications of doing so for aid programme priorities and the international aid …

should inform aid policy in heterogeneous countries with severe HIs. It shows how this would change aid allocation across … countries, leading to more aid to heterogeneous countries relative to homogeneous ones, the opposite of the existing bias in aid … distribution. It explores how adopting an HI approach would affect the use of particular aid instruments, arguing that different …

This paper proposes that aid flowing to smaller (less populous) countries has a negative impact on the quality of … impacts are positive. The analysis here suggests that the level of development, the size of an economy, and the level of aid … presented that suggests the impact of aid is damaging in small vis-à-vis large countries, and that, while aid increases economic …

This paper is a contribution to the literature on aid and growth. Despite an extensive empirical literature in this … area, existing studies have not addressed directly the mechanisms via which aid should affect growth. We identify … consumption spending. With the use of residual generated regressors, we achieve a measure of the total effect of aid on growth …

I investigated whether migration is interrelated with trade, aid and remittances so that any policies that consider … trade, aid and remittances also affect the decision to migrate. We developed and estimated an empirical model of Turkish … and Turkey, the unemployment rates in Germany and Turkey, aid, the trade intensity variable and the ratio of manufacturing …

This empirical study investigates foreign aid’s effectiveness in stimulating growth by considering economic policies … and the factors that influenced aid flow in Sri Lanka during the period of 1980-2008. For both analyses, a single …-equation instrumental variable estimation method is employed. The results derived from this study suggest that aid is positively associated …

investigates why aid to agriculture has been low, and how the share of ODA to agriculture can be improved. …

responsiveness of employment to growth. The role of development aid in this context is problematic. Across Africa more aid went to … countries with a low employment intensity of growth. The paper proposes a new approach to aid and poverty in Africa, one that …