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Competitive Proliferation of Aid Projects: A Model

Roodman, David - 2006

The proliferation of aid projects may overburden recipient governments with reporting requirements, donor visits, and other administrative overhead, siphoning off scarce domestic recipient resources, such as tax revenue or the time of skilled government officials, from directly productive use....

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Can donor coordination solve the aid proliferation problem?

Rahman, Aminur; Sawada, Yasuyuki - In: Economics Letters 116 (2012) 3, pp. 609-612

We augment Holmstrom’s (1982) team production model in the context of aid effectiveness. In addition, we show how donor proliferation leads to inefficient supply of aid in the recipient country because of the free-riding problem faced by the donors. Our empirical findings support the...

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Aid to Fragile States: Do Donors Help or Hinder?

Browne, Stephen - eSocialSciences - 2010

The record of aid to fragile and poorly-performing states is the real test of aid effectiveness. Rich countries can justify aid to fragile states both through altruism and self-interest. But, with some exceptions, donors have appeared at the wrong times and with the wrong attitudes, even...

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Financing for Development: The Gap between Words and Deeds since Monterrey

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

The Monterrey Consensus agreed at the UN summit on Financing for Development in 2002 promised a breakthrough in terms of donor generosity, aid effectiveness and new means of financing. However, the development orientation of world leaders proved to be short-lived. This is even though our...

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Of Donor Coordination, Free-Riding, Darlings, and Orphans: The dependence of bilateral aid on other bilateral giving

Davies, Ronald B.; Klasen, Stephan - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2015

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 in that year. We thereby want to assess to what extent donor coordination, free-riding,...

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The Quest for Aid Complimentarity: Nordic+ Donors and NGO-cofunding Reforms

Molenaers, Nadia; Renard, Robrecht; Gagiano, Anna - Instituut voor Ontwikkelingsbeleid en -beheer (IOB), … - 2013

The perennial lamentation since the inception of the aid business has been fragmentation: too many donors carrying …: 2; Acharya et al. 2006; Frot and Santiso 2010, 2011). Such fragmentation produces high burdens on the recipient and is … parcel of the fragmentation problem, be only due to their sheer number: around 40.000 NGOs are internationally active (UNDP …

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Do Aid Donors Coordinate Within Recipient Countries?

Öhler, Hannes - Alfred-Weber-Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2013

Aid fragmentation and a lack of donor coordination have been widely recognized as principal problems impairing the …

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Do Aid Donors Specialize and Coordinate within Recipient Countries? The Case of Malawi

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Sotirova, Albena; Thiele, Rainer - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015

Acknowledging that aid proliferation and a lack of coordination impair aid effectiveness, donors have repeatedly promised to specialize and better coordinate their aid activities, most notably in the Paris Declaration of 2005. We exploit geocoded aid data from Malawi to assess whether the...

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Donor coordination in a fragile states of Africa: Capacity building for peace and poverty reduction

Kedir, Abbi M. - In: World Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 7 (2011) 2/3/4, pp. 307-356

Fragile states (FS) are often neglected and categorized as “aid orphans”. In extreme circumstances, they are loaded with aid beyond their absorptive capacity. However, whether they receive little or too much, there is a compelling imperative to coordinate aid aimed at capacity development...

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Needs-based targeting or favoritism? The regional allocation of multilateral aid within recipient countries

Öhler, Hannes; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2013

The regional allocation of aid within recipient countries has been largely ignored in the aid allocation literature. We use geocoded data on the location of aid projects financed by the World Bank and the African Development Bank within a sample of 27 recipient countries to assess the claim of...

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