This paper systematically reviews the empirical literature on development non‐
governmental organizations (NGOs), drawing both on quantitative and qualitative analyses …

This paper brings the aid effectiveness debate to the sub-national level. We hypothesize the
non-robust results regarding the effects of aid on development in the previous literature to …

The adoption of the shared prosperity goal by the World Bank in 2013 and Sustainable
Development Goal 10, on inequality, by the United Nations in 2015 should strengthen the …

This article provides a theoretical framework to understand the tendency of non-
governmental organisations (NGOs) to cluster and the circumstances under which such …

Acknowledging that aid proliferation and a lack of coordination impair aid effectiveness,
donors have repeatedly promised to specialize and better coordinate their aid activities …

How efficient is the targeting of foreign aid to populations in need? A long literature has
focused on the impacts of foreign aid, but much rarer are studies that examine how such aid …

This paper compares the allocation of private humanitarian aid to that of official
humanitarian aid awarded to 140 recipient countries over the 2000–2016 period. We …

Aid proliferation and a lack of coordination are widely recognised as serious problems for
aid effectiveness, and donors have repeatedly promised to tackle them, eg, in the Paris …

A declared commitment in international development assistance is to promote donor co‐
ordination. Yet, how this objective plays out in practice, or how feasible and realistic it is …

One way in which the fragmentation of development assistance can harm aid effectiveness
is by producing uncoordinated and inefficient aid allocations, with overcrowded “aid …