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Connecting national ownership and local participation in aid recipient countries: The cases of Rwanda and CambodiaThis paper examines previously under-explored links between two aid-nurtured ideals...
Ownership Participation AidBlog
What is next for development effectiveness in a post-aid world?
Improving the effectiveness of global development spending may seem like a fool's errand given the state of the world today...
development cooperation Aid International cooperationJournal Article
The dynamic effects of aid and taxes on government spendingTHIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | This article examines the impact of foreign aid and taxes on government spending for 67 developing countries during 1980–2013 using dynamic heterogeneous (panel) time-series techniques...
Aid Cross-section dependence HeterogeneityWorking Paper
Aid, taxes, and government spending: A heterogeneous co-integrated panel analysisA substantial amount of aid to developing countries is given to the government, or goes through the budget, meaning it should have an impact on government fiscal behaviour (particularly on government spending)...
Aid Cross-section dependence HeterogeneityWorking Paper
Does aid to the productive sectors cause manufacturing sector growth in Africa?In recent decades, Africa has received a large share of official development assistance compared to other regions of the world...
Aid Production GrowthWorking Paper
The dynamics of domestic revenue mobilization across four decadesWe utilize the recently updated UNU-WIDER Government Revenue Dataset, which covers key indicators on tax and non-tax revenues for 196 countries since the 1980s, to study the dynamics of government revenue tax collection across selected periods from 1...
Domestic revenue mobilization GRD TaxJournal Article
A proposal for a new universal development commitmentMost developed countries have accepted, in principle at least, the 50‐year‐old commitment of contributing 0.7 per cent of gross national income to supporting the development of developing countries...
Global inequality Poverty alleviation GrowthWorking Paper
A proposal for a new universal development commitmentMost Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries have accepted, in principle at least, the 50-year-old commitment of contributing 0.7 per cent of gross national income to supporting the development of countries in the Global Sout...
Global inequality Poverty alleviation GrowthBook Chapter
Donor-supported approaches to improving extractives governance: Lessons from NigeriaFrom the book: Extractive Industries
Oil Gas Natural resourcesBlog
Energy subsidies are bigger than aid in more than half of poor countries … but we spend very little trying to reduce them
Which of the following do you think is the most important need in developing countries?...
Energy subsidies Fuel subsidies AidWorking Paper
The economics and politics of foreign aid and domestic revenueThe main argument of this paper is that there is considerable heterogeneity in the way aid can shape tax performance in developing countries: through behavioural effects, donor conditionality, recipient policy reform and technical assistance; and the...
Aid Taxation Tax reformWorking Paper
Energy subsidies, international aid, and the politics of reformEnergy subsidy reform is critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and tackling climate change. This paper sets out the evidence on the scale of subsidies and their impact...
Energy subsidies Fuel subsidies AidWorking Paper
Multilateral development aid: Assessing the major replenishments of 2016This survey of the 2016 replenishments of three multilateral development bank soft funds and of the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria shows that a significant re-set of the multilateral development finance system is taking place, with grant fundin...
Aid Multilateral finance Traditional and emerging donorsWorking Paper
Donor-supported approaches to improving extractives governance: Lessons from Nigeria and GhanaDonor interest in the extractives sector is based upon the premise that it represents an opportunity to improve a country’s development prospects...
Oil Gas Natural resourcesProject
Development policy and practice: competing paradigms and approachesTheme: Transformation
This project uses UNU-WIDER’s high level of convening power – its ability to mobilize senior figures in the development policy debate from different paradigms – and its ability to stand aside from the fashions and pressures of the...
Development Aid Development policy