This study explores whether IMF-supported programs in low-income countries (LICs) catalyze Official Development Assistance (ODA). Based on a comprehensive set of ODA measures and using Propensity Score Matching approach to address selection bias, we show that programs addressing policy or...

In response to corruption and inefficient state institutions in recipient countries, some foreign aid donors outsource the delivery of aid to non-state development actors. Other donor governments continue to support state management of aid, seeking to strengthen recipient states. These...

The proportion of foreign aid targeting or utilising civil society is large and has grown significantly in the past decade. The paper investigates the impact of aid on civil society across countries. We use a recently available novel dataset that contains several measures of civil society for...

Using donor-recipient data from 1973 to 2013, we find that reducing foreign aid as a fraction of the recipient’s GDP by 10% improves the bilateral political relation by 2% in the long run. Such a negative relationship is robust for aid with different purposes, for sample averaged over 3 to 5...

Is aid subject to diminishing returns? This paper addresses this issue, thereby contributing to the literature on effective allocation of aid. We test the hypothesis of diminishing returns to aid. Using an appropriate econometric technique for detecting thresholds, we find that aid only becomes...

Country Programmable Aid (CPA) is the portion of aid that donors programme at country or regional level. CPA for bilateral donors is defined through exclusions, by subtracting from total gross bilateral official development assistance (ODA), all activities that: are inherently unpredictable by...

This dataset contains data on aid as reported by donors and national co-ordinators in participating partner countries. The dataset includes all quantitative data collected through the 2006, 2008 and 2011 Surveys on Monitoring the Paris Declaration.