This paper investigates how World Bank lending responds to upcoming elections in
borrowing countries. We find that investment project loans disburse faster when countries …

We develop a measurement strategy for the impact of foreign aid based on a regional spatial
panel vector-autoregressive model (Sp P-VAR). We illustrate the strategy using Ugandan …

Проанализированы изменения в структуре официальной помощи развитию по
географическому распределению, инструментам и формам предоставления. Показано …

Thus, comparison of directions and structure of aid before and after financial crisis
introduces new points which support the idea of donor selfishness and the need to create …

Disaster risk reduction (DRR) has become an important element of donor policy, because
numerous governments have expressed their commitment to helping countries vulnerable to …

Since North Korea solicited international assistance due to famine in 1995, the international
community has provided billions of dollars of aid to the country. Despite multiple challenges …

This study scrutinizes the allocation of financial aid for climate change adaptation from
OECD/DAC donors, focusing on its effectiveness in supporting developing countries. With …

The paper derives an efficient allocation rule of adaptation aid from a donor to the recipient
nations, which is different from the traditional development aid literature. The design of the …

Over 40 years of conventional economic analysis has not reached consensus on the effect
of foreign aid on recipient country growth. We provide new insight into this relationship by …

After 32 years of dictatorship regime and a decade of various armed conflicts. the newly
elected DRC government in 2006 was expected to receive US $4 billion from the traditional …