Working Paper

An important feature of aid to developing countries is that it is given to the government. As a result, aid should be expected to affect fiscal behaviour, although theory and existing evidence is ambiguous regarding the nature of these effects. This...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Public expenditures

Working Paper

There has been significant amount of aid inflows to developing countries including Ghana, but these have been very volatile. Aid flows have been associated with low domestic resource mobilization and have reduced Ghana to a country heavily dependent...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Public expenditures
• Poverty

Working Paper

This paper is a contribution to the literature on aid and growth. Despite an extensive empirical literature in this area, existing studies have not addressed directly the mechanisms via which aid should affect growth. We identify investment as the...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Public expenditures

Working Paper

• Capital market
• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic development

Working Paper

China is emerging as perhaps the most globally significant development finance provider, going far beyond concessional foreign aid. With China’s initiatives to create and foster new multi-lateral finance institutions, and to work in terms of large...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Finance

Blog

Wim Naudé, Mark McGillivray and Amelia U. Santos-Paulino A vital part of WIDER's research agenda has in recent years focused on the challenges faced...

• Climate change
• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic development

Journal Special Issue

Following on WIDER's work on Development Finance which has involved three projects since 2002, a development conference on 'Aid: Principles, Policies and Performance' was organized in June 2006. Aid is one of the most challenging development issues...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic development
• International finance

Report

The ReCom – Research and Communication on Foreign Aid – programme produced 247 original studies. More than 300 researchers from 59 countries came together and provided evidence on what does and could work in development, and what can be transferred...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic development
• Economic growth

Working Paper

This paper discusses the recent history of education aid policy. It highlights an important shift in policy thinking in the international aid architecture that has dominated the global education aid agenda since the early 1990s. It argues that...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic development
• Education

Journal Special Issue

The real value of official aid flows fell for much of the 1990s, and private capital flows to low-income countries remain mostly limited. The decline in aid flows may endanger the development process, since they finance much of the development budget...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• International finance

Journal Special Issue

The real value of official aid flows fell for much of the 1990s, and private capital flows to low-income countries remain mostly limited. The decline in aid flows may endanger the development process, since they finance much of the development budget...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• International economic relations
• International finance

Blog

In academic discourse, it has become almost ritualistic to begin a piece on foreign aid by highlighting the sharp controversies over its effectiveness...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic development

Journal Special Issue

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) give aid to Africa a new emphasis. Yet aid flows to Africa have trended downward over the last decade, and as a consequence more Africans now live in poverty. This is especially true of Sub-Saharan Africa. Any...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Public expenditures

Book Chapter

Part of Book External Finance for Private Sector Development

• Econometric models
• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Foreign investments

Journal Special Issue

The present paper serves as an introduction to this special issue providing a justification for, and linking and introducing to the articles that follow. A central message emanating from the papers included in this special issue is that it is not...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic development projects
• Government spending policy

Journal Special Issue

This Policy Arena examines some of the development challenges faced by SIDS. It brings together a collection of papers arising from the UNU-WIDER project Fragility and Development. These investigations were presented at the UNU-WIDER project meeting...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic development
• Equality and inequality