Two findings have been common in the literature on the impact of foreign aid on public sector fiscal behaviour in developing countries. The first is that aid "sticks" to higher levels of recipient government expenditure, with aggregate expenditure often rising by more than the value of the aid...

This paper models the inter-temporal allocation of bilateral foreign development aid to developing countries. A formal theoretical framework is developed, in which aid is treated as a private good of the donor country bureaucratic group responsible for bilateral aid allocation. This model is...

This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on public sector fiscal behaviour in Côte d’Ivoire. A special interest is the relationship between aid, debt servicing and debt, given that Côte d’Ivoire is a highly indebted country. The theoretical model employed differs from those of...

This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on public sector fiscal behaviour in Cote d'Ivoire. A special interest is the relationship between aid, debt servicing and debt, given that Cote d'Ivoire is a highly indebted country. The theoretical model employed differs from those of previous...