Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid

By William R. Easterly, Tobias Pfutze. 2008

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Subfields: Development, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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1. Matthew S. Winters
2. A. Bigsten
3. Sven Tengstam
4. Joseph G Wright
5. J. Wallace
6. Edmund J. Malesky

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1. Matthew S. Winters
2. A. Bigsten
3. Sven Tengstam
4. Joseph G Wright

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2. Joseph G Wright
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4. J. Wallace
5. Edmund J. Malesky

Citations in the corpus

• International coordination and the effectiveness of aid (2015, background): “Easterly and Pfutze (2008) collect information from donors about administrative costs.”
• The Politics of Effective Foreign Aid (2010, background): “While Easterly & Pfutze (2008) state that the proportion of aid distributed to corrupt countries has not changed over time and Neumayer (2003b) finds little evidence that donors respond in a consistent way to the governance characteristics of recipient countries, Dollar & Levin (2006) argue that…”
• Development Aid and Economic Growth: A Positive Long-Run Relation (2009, unknown): “For example, it could be argued that effective donors have more efficient administrations, face lower overhead costs, or are less bureaucratic so that more of each dollar of aid reaches the intended recipients (Easterly & Pfutze, 2008).”
• Foreign Aid in the Aftermath of Large Natural Disasters (2014, unknown): “They focus on the reasons for donors’ choices whether to channel the aid through a multilateral, and whether to provide aid as cash or in-kind. donations (though this may vary by the nature of the donating source; see Easterly and Pfutze, 2008).”
• Rhetoric versus reality: the best and worst of aid agency practices (2011, unknown): “INSERT FIGURE 10 HERE Given the problems with noisy measures of overheads cited above (not to mention noisy measures of the other components), we chose not to put an emphasis on changes in relative performance by agency between Easterly and Pfutze (2008) and this exercise.”