It is widely recognised that the foreign aid system-which today involves every country in the
world-is in need of drastic change. But there are conflicting opinions as to what is needed …

The notion that foreign aid harms the institutions of recipient governments remains
prevalent. We combine new disaggregated aid data and various metrics of political …

This article argues that a new generation of Political Conditionalities has emerged during
the last decade. This requires an expansion of the original definition and research agenda …

This chapter examines the conditions under which foreign aid will be effective in raising
growth, reducing poverty, and meeting basic needs in areas such as education and health …

A recent trend in several low-income developing countries has been a rapid scaling-up of
public investment. It is argued that in the presence of limited absorptive capacity countries …

Aid fragmentation is widely recognized as being detrimental to development outcomes. We
reinvestigate the impact of fragmentation in the context of growth, bureaucratic policy, and …

This paper offers new measures of aid quality covering 38 bilateral and multilateral donors,
as well as new insights about the robustness and usefulness of such measures. The 2005 …

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 …

The 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness sets targets for increased use by donors of
recipient country systems for managing aid. The target is premised on a view that country …

Scholars studying foreign assistance differ over whether multilateral aid is preferable to
bilateral aid for promoting development, but nearly all build their cases primarily on highly …