Aid is still an important feature of the development landscape. Fragile states, in particular, have the greatest … development needs but due to their poor governance they are the least likely countries to use aid effectively to meet their … development challenges. In this paper, we explore which fragile states receive most aid flows, which donors are particularly …

Assistance (ODA). Based on a comprehensive set of ODA measures and using Propensity Score Matching approach to address selection … the modality of ODA. Moreover, the impact is greatest when LICs are faced with substantial macroeconomic imbalances or … bilateral ODA turn insignificant, suggesting that the catalytic impact is attributed primarily to multilateral ODA …

organizations have elected to forego international aid precisely because of the risk that their agendas are subverted by …

Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political … purposes. The vulnerability of Chinese aid to political capture has prompted speculation that it may be economically … ineffective, or even harmful. We test these claims by estimating the effect of Chinese aid on subnational economic development …

Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political … purposes. The vulnerability of Chinese aid to political capture has prompted speculation that it may be economically … ineffective, or even harmful. We test these claims by estimating the effect of Chinese aid on subnational economic development …

contributions, systematic assessments of the determinants of success - or failure - of development aid projects remain limited …, particularly for bilateral development aid. This paper provides such a systematic, quantitative analysis: we construct a unique … database covering 5,608 evaluation results - success ratings - for bilateral development aid projects financed through one of …