empirical research on aid allocation by employing Poisson estimations on the determinants of the World Bank’s choice of project …

Account (MCA) for aid allocation decisions. By conducting Explanatory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of data from 1996 to …

I examine in detail the motives of bilateral aid allocation decisions, as they are revealed by data on bilateral aid … commitments. I identify both self-interest and recipient needs and merits motives in aid allocation. Self-interest motives are … effect» in aid allocation decisions. Unsurprisingly, aid allocation net of the bilateralism effect is highly correlated with …

humanitarian assistance in explaining their aid motives. We investigate how Japanese aid allocation policies have changed over the … time and also identify empirically the major determinants of aid allocation. It is found from the empirical evidence that … trend one can conclude that the same determinant factors may keep on playing vital roles in aid allocation decision …

There is a widespread view that political criteria have received less emphasis in aid allocation since the end of the … effectiveness is attributed to this shift. A reasonably large literature on aid allocation supports this view: a number of … that developmental criteria have had a larger influence on cold war period aid allocation than previously thought. An …