The paper explores the relationships between economic freedom on the one side and development aid and IMF credit as …, economic freedom, aid, and IMF credit, the paper develops a simple panel regression model to evaluate the relationship between … “economic freedom” as dependent variable and “aid” and “IMF credit” as independent variables. The estimation is based upon data …

probability of obtaining funds; or, the better the applicant's governance, the greater are its gains. Moreover, the maximum aid a … competition for aid, and the outcome for the quality of governance. …

Why would bilateral donors intermediate aid through a multilateral and not extend aid directly? This paper suggests a … regressions with bilateral-pair, fixed effects to model aid allocation decisions. The results confirm that politics is important … for bilateral donors but also that aid fragmentation and strategic behavior affect aid allocation. Multilaterals solve …

This paper surveys recent research on aid and growth. It also provides an overview of research on inter-recipient aid … allocation. The overall focus of the paper is on the relevance of these issues for poverty-efficient aid, defined as a pattern of … inter-recipient aid allocation which maximises poverty reduction. It identifies a range of povertyreducing criteria on which …

This paper summarises research on aid allocation and effectiveness, highlighting the current findings of recent … research on aid allocation to fragile states. Fragile states are defined by the donor community as those with either critically … of research and analysis on how aid should and is being allocated across all developing countries. Various aid allocation …

This paper examines the concept of global public goods (GPGs) and in that context explores the extent of aid (ODA …) presently being diverted to GPG provision and whether such diversion skews aid-flows towards some recipients and whether … diverting aid to GPG provision crowds out aid for conventional development activities. These are examined on the basis of OECD …

Does official aid pave the road for private foreign investment or does it suffocate private initiative by diverting … marginal effect of aid on private foreign investment is close to zero. Surprisingly, however, the effect is strictly positive …

We explore whether foreign aid affects developing countries' creditworthiness, as proxied by the Institutional Investor … current aid reduces the likelihood of future default. We then test this hypothesis, using a data set that covers a large … number of developing countries in the 1980s and 1990s. While the size of the effect differs across types of aid and country …

patronage spending. If aid ends up in the pockets of political elites and their ethno-regional networks, this may exacerbate …