Background There are over 53million children worldwide under five with developmental
disabilities who require effective interventions to support their health and well-being …

This article analyzes the rise and fall of the aid effectiveness norm, using the lens of
Finnemore and Sikkink's norm 'life cycle'. I argue that, although donors and recipients …

Foreign aid relationships are valuable to donors as a means of improving development
outcomes and influencing recipient country policy. The emergence of new donors can lead …

Why do some donor governments pursue international development through recipient
governments, while others bypass such local authorities? Weaving together scholarship in …

Abstract Development assistance has been criticised for a lack of coordination between aid
donors. This paper argues that competition for export markets and political support prevents …

Monitoring global development aid provides important evidence for policymakers financing
the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To overcome the limitations of existing …

The extent to which official development assistance (ODA) conforms to internationally
agreed goals and principles of aid effectiveness may be influenced by donors' national …

Donor proliferation and the fragmentation of aid delivery is an important problem besetting
foreign aid policy. Increased donor coordination is widely seen as a fix to this problem. This …

We account for competition for export markets among donor countries of foreign aid by
analyzing spatial dependence in aid allocation. Employing sector-specific aid data, we find …

Since the end of the Cold War, development assistance has been transformed in various
ways. The aid allocation and the aid effectiveness literature intensively discuss the …