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Aid targeting to fragile and conflict-affected states and implications for aid effectiveness

While 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. This paper extends recent work by...

  • Aid effectiveness
  • Foreign aid
  • Fragile states
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The impact of foreign aid on maternal mortality

In 2010, the G8 placed renewed focus on maternal health via the Muskoka Initiative by committing to spend an additional US$5 billion on maternal, newborn, and child health before 2015. Following the end of the Millennium Development Goals and the...

  • Foreign aid
  • Maternal mortality
  • Muskoka Initiative
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The vital role of aid in development
by Rachel M. Gisselquist, Sam Jones June 2019

The 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...

  • Aid effectiveness
  • Aid policy
  • Conflict management
Journal Special Issue
Aid Impact and Effectiveness
  • Aid effectiveness
  • Aid and growth
  • Development aid
Journal Article
Aid Impact and Effectiveness

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid Impact and Effectiveness

  • Donors
  • Fragile states
  • Climate change
Journal Article
Effects of Foreign Aid on Income through International Trade

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid Impact and Effectiveness

  • Bilateral aid
  • Exports
  • Free trade
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The Impact of Foreign Aid on Maternal Mortality

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid Impact and Effectiveness

  • Foreign aid
  • Maternal mortality
  • Muskoka Initiative
Journal Article
Aid Targeting to Fragile and Conflict-Affected States and Implications for Aid Effectiveness

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid Impact and Effectiveness

  • Aid effectiveness
  • Foreign aid
  • Fragile states
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Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen?

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid Impact and Effectiveness

  • Aid effectiveness
  • Foreign aid
  • Funding
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Do Countries Use Foreign Aid to Buy Geopolitical Influence?

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid Impact and Effectiveness

  • Funding
  • Foreign aid
  • Aid effectiveness
Journal Special Issue
Macroeconomic Perspectives on Aid

Much criticism of aid rests on no evidence at all, on out-of-date studies (many of which are methodologically weak) or on a misunderstanding of causation and country context. Many critics correlate weak or negative growth with aid flows, without much...

  • Macroeconomics
  • Foreign aid
Journal Article
The Macroeconomics of Aid

Part of Journal Special Issue Macroeconomic Perspectives on Aid

  • Macroeconomics
  • Foreign aid
Working Paper
Do countries use foreign aid to buy geopolitical influence?

In recent years, donor countries have increasingly used different aid allocation channels to boost aid effectiveness. One delivery channel that has grown tremendously is ‘multi-bi aid’—contributions to multilateral organizations earmarked for...

  • Funding
  • Foreign aid
  • Aid effectiveness
Working Paper
Effects of foreign aid on income through international trade

This paper presents a review of recent studies that estimate the trade effects of foreign aid. It also provides new results obtained using panel data techniques to estimate the direct effects of aid on international trade, accounting for countries’...

  • Bilateral aid
  • Exports
  • Free trade
Working Paper
Too many cooks in the kitchen?

The 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. How does the division of financing relate to overall project...

  • Aid effectiveness
  • Foreign aid
  • Funding
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Aid Effectiveness for Environmental Sustainability

This collection examines the role that foreign aid can play in dealing with the severe global challenge of climate change, one of the most pressing international development issues of the 21st century. Addressing the key threats of rising...

  • Foreign aid
  • Climate change
  • Sustainable energy
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