China is now the lender of first resort for much of the developing world, but Beijing has
fueled speculation among policymakers, scholars, and journalists by shrouding its grant …

Summary The Sustainable Development target of ensuring access to water and sanitation
for all by 2030 has far-reaching implications for the achievement of the other SDGs …

Does foreign aid extended by one country improve that country's image among populations
of recipient countries? Using a multinational survey, we show that a United States aid …

Unpacking the major debates, this Oxford Handbook brings together leading authors of the
field to provide a state-of-the-art guide to governance in areas of limited statehood where …

It has been intensively and controversially discussed whether “good” economic policies and
governance in the recipient countries render foreign aid more effective in alleviating poverty …

We investigate whether and to what extent Chinese development finance affects infant
mortality, combining 92 demographic and health surveys (DHS) for a maximum of 53 …

We investigate whether donors give more aid to countries with larger gender gaps in
education, health, or women's rights, and whether they reward improvements in those …

Despite remarkable progress in the fight against HIV, the number of new infections remains
unacceptably high, epidemics continue to grow in certain communities, and therefore AIDS …

We investigate the impact of health aid on infant mortality conditional on the quality of
governance. Our analysis applies instrumental variable estimation with health aid …

This paper examines the impacts of nutrition-sensitive sector aid inflows on the prevalence
of undernourishment. We find nutrition-sensitive aid can reduce undernourishment …