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– Issues, Challenges, and the New Agenda
Foreign aid is one of the few topics in the development discourse with such an uninterrupted, yet volatile history in terms of interest and attention from academics, policymakers, and practitioners alike. Does aid work in promoting growth and reducing poverty in the developing world? Will a new 'big...
Book Chapter
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Foreign Aid for Development
Book Chapter
From the book:
Foreign Aid for Development
Book Chapter
From the book:
Foreign Aid for Development
Book Chapter
From the book:
Foreign Aid for Development
Book Chapter
From the book:
Foreign Aid for Development
Book Chapter
From the book:
Foreign Aid for Development
Book Chapter
From the book:
Foreign Aid for Development
Book Chapter
From the book:
Foreign Aid for Development
Book Chapter
– Lessons from Assessing Aid for Basic Social Services
From the book:
Foreign Aid for Development
Journal Article
This peer-reviewed research is available free of charge. UNU-WIDER believes that research is a global public good and supports Open Access.
– Development Aid—Theory, Policies, and Performance
Part of Journal Special Issue
Development Aid
Journal Article
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– The Contest for Aid
Part of Journal Special Issue
Development Aid
Journal Article
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– An Intertemporal Analysis
Part of Journal Special Issue
Development Aid
Journal Article
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– Incentives for a Pro-Poor Policy
Part of Journal Special Issue
Development Aid
Journal Article
This peer-reviewed research is available free of charge. UNU-WIDER believes that research is a global public good and supports Open Access.
Part of Journal Special Issue
Development Aid
Journal Article
This peer-reviewed research is available free of charge. UNU-WIDER believes that research is a global public good and supports Open Access.
Part of Journal Special Issue
Development Aid
Journal Article
This peer-reviewed research is available free of charge. UNU-WIDER believes that research is a global public good and supports Open Access.
– When Aid Volatility Matters and When it Does Not
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Development Aid
Journal Article
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Part of Journal Special Issue
Development Aid
Journal Article
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– Policy Lessons from Recent Experience
Part of Journal Special Issue
Development Aid
Journal Article
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– Looking at the Aid–Social Capital–Growth Nexus
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Development Aid
Journal Article
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Part of Journal Special Issue
Development Aid
– Theory, Policies, and Performance
Following on WIDER's work on Development Finance which has involved three projects since 2002, a development conference on 'Aid: Principles, Policies and Performance' was organized in June 2006. Aid is one of the most challenging development issues facing the international community. There is now a...
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– Policy Lessons from Recent Experience
This paper investigates the macroeconomic challenges created by a surge in aid inflows. It develops an analytical framework for examining possible policy responses to increased aid, in terms of absorption and spending of aid—where the central bank controls absorption through monetary policy and the...
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– When Aid Volatility Matters and When It Does Not
In previous papers we have argued that aid is likely to mitigate the negative effects of external shocks on economic growth (i.e., aid is more effective in countries that are more vulnerable to external shocks). Recently an important debate has emerged about the possible negative effects of aid...
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We examine the properties of alternative monetary policy rules in response to large aid surges in low-income countries characterized by incomplete capital market integration and currency substitution. Using a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model, we show that simple monetary rules that...
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– Looking at the Aid-Social Capital-Growth Nexus
We examine the impact of institutional quality and social capital on aid effectiveness. We find strong evidence that social capital and institutions enhance aid effectiveness. Moreover, once we account for the role of social capital and institutions, the impact of policies tend to disappear. These...
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This paper analyses three issues in strategic donor-recipient interaction motivated by the complexity of the rationale underlying aid. The first is when we have several principals with conflicting objectives. Any one principal cannot offer high powered incentives to the agent to carry out their...
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