Motivated by the lack of sub-national empirical evidence on the relationship between aid and institutional development … countries. We combine geo-referenced data on the subnational allocation of World Bank aid projects to Africa over the 1995 … applies even if we consider overall World Bank aid, i.e. not just projects specifically targeted at institutional development …

In recent decades, Africa has received a large share of official development assistance compared to other regions of … the world. Using AidData for 2000-13, this paper examines the effects of aid to productive sectors on manufacturing growth … in Africa. Econometric results show that increased assistance to these sectors is associated with an increase in growth …

government institutions while channeling aid and the impact of such practices on aid effectiveness in Africa. Based on an … empirical study of project aid and budget support provided to Malawi by the World Bank, the African Development Bank, and the …Many practical and action-oriented international roadmaps to improve the quality of aid and its delivery and impact on …

start and is seemingly driven primarily by multilateral aid and projects focusing on rural development, vulnerability …Motivated by a recent setback in the fight against child malnutrition, this study explores whether aid projects help to … prevalence and for which we have access to geo-referenced data on aid projects from a broad range of donors, we geographically …