Aid Dependence and the Quality of Governance: Cross-Country Empirical Tests

By Stephen F. Knack. 2001

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Subfields: Development, Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Does Foreign Aid Promote Democracy (2004, background): “Knack (2001) finds that higher levels of aid worsen corruption and bureaucratic quality, correcting for the potential endogeneity of aid.”
Natural Resources, Democracy and Corruption (2010, methodology): “Third, it is also widely used in the literature.(17) As an alternative we use the corruption perception index from Transparency International.”
Foreign Aid and Market-Liberalizing Reform (2005, neutral): “Knack (2001) also differs in having data on more countries than we”
Does foreign aid harm political institutions (2015, methodology): “Column (III) essentially replicates the specification of Knack (2004), which involves subtracting the initial observation for the outcome from both”
The use (and abuse) of governance indicators in economics: a review (2008, background): “One of the potential ways to account for this in crosssectional analysis is to take the difference in the variable between the first and last periods under examination (an approach used by Knack, 2001).”
Rhetoric versus reality: the best and worst of aid agency practices (2011, neutral): “2For empirical studies supporting the ineffectiveness of foreign aid in achieving development, see ([Boone, 1996], [Svensson, 1999, 2000], [Knack, 2001], [Brumm, 2003], [Ovaska, 2003], [Brautigam and Knack, 2004], [Easterly et al., 2004], [Djankov, Montalvo, and Reynal-Querol, 2006, 2008],…”
Does Greater Accountability Improve the Quality of Public Service Delivery? Evidence from Uganda (2005, background): “Disproportionate dependence on aid transfers has been shown to reduce accountability and the quality of governance (Knack, 2001), with potentially far-reaching effects on the whole economy (Lanyi, 2004) and on specific sectors (Azfar & Gurgur, 2004).”