Transparency in the extractives sector is widely seen as an important tool for improving
accountability and deterring corruption. Yet for those very reasons, it is a puzzle that so …

Performance-based aid has been proposed as an alternative to the failed traditional
approach whereby donors make aid conditional on the reform promises of recipient …

Rules that require actors to make their finances more transparent have become a key part of
the anti-corruption toolkit, under the assumption that sunlight is the best disinfectant. This …

Abstract Development thinking in the past two decades has explicitly embraced law as an
engine of development. This legal turn has been accompanied by a dramatic expansion of …

Abstract In the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness of 2005 and related initiatives donor
countries promised to render foreign aid more effective, inter alia, by increasingly …

Do international donors penalize coups d'état by reducing aid? How significant is the impact
of coups on aid flows? These questions have become increasingly important over the past …

Sovereign governments, multilateral institutions, and non-governmental organizations have
created a wide array of tools to assess the policy performance of developing countries …

This study investigates the effects of the World Bank's exogenously-determined income
threshold for eligibility for concessionary International Development Association (IDA) loans …

The Mexico City Policy (MCP) prohibits the United States Agency for International
Development from providing aid to international non-governmental organizations that …

This article examines the determinants underlying the decision to select a recipient country
and the decision about how much health aid to transfer, using data from 22 bilateral donors …