The purpose of this working paper is to analyse Spanish public opinion towards foreign aid. To do this, the author has considered some factors that shape public attitudes towards development aid, basically: public opinion’s interest towards international issues; public perceptions about the...

Some empirical works have argued that aid hinders the institutional quality of recipient countries. This article argues that these works suffer from two main shortcomings that make their conclusions less tenable. On the one hand, a previous investigation of the determinants of institutional...