This paper reviews the various measures which have been used in the recent literature to assess how well donors allocate their aid across countries. We begin by proposing three desirable criteria for a measure of allocative performance, which make limited assumptions. We then show that all...

Openness, closedness and duality in Banach spaces with applications to continuous linear programming -- Conditions for the closedness of the characteristic cone associated with an infinite linear system -- Symmetric duality: a prelude -- Algebraic fundamentals of linear programming -- On regular...

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been commonly understood as national targets. This interpretation has fostered the critique that the framework favours complacent middle-income countries, discriminates against low-income countries, provides a poor national planning tool and generally...