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quantities to new partnerships. This has direct consequences for aid fragmentation, with many donors disbursing small amounts to …Development aid donors disburse aid to many developing countries. This paper shows that whether a partnership is … established early or late matters significantly for aid quantities. Donor countries allocate larger shares of their aid budgets to …
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Although there exists a vast literature on aid efficiency (the effect of aid on GDP), and that aid allocation … determinants have been estimated, little is known about the minute details of aid allocation. This article investigates empirically … a claim repeatedly made in the past that aid donors herd. Building upon a methodology applied to financial markets, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110632
This paper measures and compares fragmentation in aid sectors. Past studies focused on aggregate country data but a … sector analysis provides a better picture of fragmentation. We start by counting the number of aid projects in the developing … shift towards social sectors and, as a consequence, these are the most fragmented. We quantify fragmentation in each aid …
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Aid ineffectiveness, fragmentation, and volatility have already been highlighted by scholars and OECD studies. Far … allocation of foreign aid, proposing different indexes that try to capture the specific features of aid allocation. Of course … unexplained.<BR>L’inefficacité, la fragmentation et la volatilité de l’aide au développement ont été souvent soulignées dans les …
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the current debate on aid fragmentation by providing trends for the last 50 years. We show that aid donors have constantly …This paper presents stylised facts about development aid and capital flows to developing countries. It compares their … volumes and volatilities and finds that foreign aid is not the major source of finance for these countries any more, though …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004962600
This paper measures and compares fragmentation in aid sectors. Past studies focused on aggregate country data but a … sector analysis provides a better picture of fragmentation. We start by counting the number of aid projects in the developing … shift towards social sectors and, as a consequence, these are the most fragmented. We quantify fragmentation in each aid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497888
This paper measures and compares fragmentation in aid sectors. Past studies focused on aggregate country data but a … sector analysis provides a better picture of fragmentation. We start by counting the number of aid projects in the developing … shift towards social sectors and, as a consequence, these are the most fragmented. We quantify fragmentation in each aid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509449
Although there exists a vast literature on aid efficiency (the effect of aid on GDP), and that aid allocation … determinants have been estimated, little is known about the minute details of aid allocation. This article investigates empirically … a claim repeatedly made in the past that aid donors herd. Building upon a methodology applied to financial markets, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005092590
Recent literature has debated possible adverse impacts of aid volatility on a country's economic performance. Our paper … adds to this literature in three ways: First it tests the validity of the aid volatility and growth relationship from … various aspects: across time horizons, by sources of aid, and by aid volatility interactions with country characteristics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213003
This study explores a basic idea in political economy: Trading money for political influence. Our focus is at the level of international institutions, where governments may exploit their influence in one organization to gain leverage over another. In particular, we consider the lending...
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