countries. Our analysis applies the long difference estimator and instrumental variable estimation, with aid instrumented by …

World Bank projects and generally find that projects that are potentially politically motivated – such as those granted to … governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank … Council members with higher short-term debt, however, a negative quality rating is more likely. So we find evidence that World …

of this paper is to provide a set of sufficient conditions for identification and consistent estimation of the baseline … findings do not confirm the latter, they do indicate that accounting for heaping matters for the estimation of the baseline …