insufficient social knowledge seem to be the major constraints on reform. We find that financial aid tends to allow the ruling …This paper reviews the policy implications of research on reform in failing states (Chauvet and Collier 2006, 2007a … reform in such states, we present the internal constraints impeding reform in failing states. Élite preferences and …

In this paper, we try to establish a connection between the political economy of the reform process and the issue of … external aid. We therefore stress the vicious circle brought about by the aid dependency of the actors implicated in economic … reforms. Two levels of dependency are thus identified : (i) immediate aid dependency of the government in order to implement …

negative perceptions of economic conditions and reform efforts. Other demographic markers such as gender or provincial origin … the respondents were unaware of the humanitarian aid program and the ones who knew of it almost universally did not …

systems raises several questions. This article reviews a few of them and advocates that the reform of the health sector gets …

abandon accounting for the use of aid. If one listens to the rhetoric surrounding the new approach to aid, one gets the … implementation of aid resources, but argues that donors cannot let themselves off the hook so easily with respect to the … their old monitoring and evaluation (M&E) in ways that contradict the new insights in aid effectiveness and hamper the …

Democracy won the elections on a reform platform, promising to reverse the economic decline and to introduce more inclusive … resisted. Politics continue to be the main stumbling block to durable reform. The country is yet to establish a level of …. With regard to the role of donors, aid to Zambia, or even its temporary withdrawal, has been a poor basis for inducing …

This paper looks at interactions between foreign aid and the public sector in developing countries, especially those … to perceived policy and institutional inadequacies. Results obtained suggest that foreign aid increases consumption and …

Using data from 1988 to 2007, we examine to what extent bilateral aid flows of an individual donor to a country depend … on aid flows from all other bilateral and multilateral donors to that country. We thereby want to assess to what extent … donor coordination, free-riding, selectivity, specialization, and common donor motivations drive bilateral aid allocation as …