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Aid effectiveness: Growth and beyondThe questions of whether aid has impact and is effective have been the subject of considerable attention...
Aid effectiveness aid and growth Development aidJournal Article
What Does the Evidence Tell Us about ‘Thinking and Working Politically’ in Development Assistance?Part of Journal Special Issue Aid Impact and Effectiveness
Aid effectiveness Donors evidenceJournal Article
Do Countries Use Foreign Aid to Buy Geopolitical Influence?: Evidence from Donor Campaigns for Temporary UN Security Council SeatsPart of Journal Special Issue Aid Impact and Effectiveness
funding Foreign aid Aid effectivenessJournal Article
Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen?: The Division of Financing in World Bank Projects and Project PerformancePart of Journal Special Issue Aid Impact and Effectiveness
Aid effectiveness Foreign aid fundingJournal Article
Bypassing Government: Aid Effectiveness and Malawi’s Local Development FundPart of Journal Special Issue Aid Impact and Effectiveness
Aid effectiveness Institutions Aid policyJournal Article
Aid Targeting to Fragile and Conflict-Affected States and Implications for Aid EffectivenessPart of Journal Special Issue Aid Impact and Effectiveness
Aid effectiveness Foreign aid Fragile states
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The vital role of aid in developmentThe UNU-WIDER research programme on foreign aid ( ReCom ) began in 2010, in a period of strong aid scepticism. Dambisa Moyo’s well-known book, Dead Aid (2009), is just one example...
Aid effectiveness Aid policy Conflict managementWorking Paper
Institutional bypass and aid effectiveness in AfricaMany practical and action-oriented international roadmaps to improve the quality of aid and its delivery and impact on development—including the Paris Declaration, Accra Agenda for Action, and Busan Partnership—emphasize a more active inv...
Aid effectiveness Institutions Aid policyWorking Paper
What does the evidence tell us about ‘thinking and working politically’ in development assistance?This paper critically reviews evidence on ‘thinking and working politically’ in development...
Aid effectiveness Donors evidenceWorking Paper
Aid targeting to fragile and conflict-affected states and implications for aid effectivenessWhile significant amounts of foreign aid have been allocated to the group of so-called fragile and conflict-affected states in recent years, it is not clear whether that aid is targeted to where it is most needed...
Aid effectiveness Foreign aid Fragile statesWorking Paper
Too many cooks in the kitchen?: The division of financing in World Bank projects and project performanceThe total funding envelope for World Bank projects is often divided among various state and non-state actors, each of which can have competing ideas about or interests in the project...
Aid effectiveness Foreign aid fundingWorking Paper
Do countries use foreign aid to buy geopolitical influence?: Evidence from donor campaigns for temporary UN Security Council seatsIn recent years, donor countries have increasingly used different aid allocation channels to boost aid effectiveness...
funding Foreign aid Aid effectivenessProject
Effects of Swedish and international democracy support
Theme: Current programme
Democracy Development aid Aid effectivenessPolicy Brief
Working Paper
Putting Paris into practice: Foreign aid, national ownership, and donor alignment in Mali and GhanaThis paper examines the application of the first two principles of the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, namely ownership and alignment, to the cases of Mali and Ghana...
Aid effectiveness Paris decleration ownership