An Aid-Institutions Paradox? A Review Essay on Aid Dependency and State Building in Sub-Saharan Africa

By Todd J. Moss, G. Pettersson, Nicolas van de Walle. 2006

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Subfields: Development, Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science

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Do No Harm: Aid, Weak Institutions, and the Missing Middle in Africa (2007, unknown): “The donor community has not been unaware of the constraint to effective aid of weak institutions of the state, including in Africa --what Moss et al. (2006) aptly call the " aid-institutions paradox.”
Can the West Save Africa (2008, unknown): “” Yet political scientists specializing in analyzing African states see little sign of effect of these Herculean efforts at making civil servants perform better, even seeing some signs of decline (Moss et al., 2008).”
How Does Taxation Affect the Quality of Governance (2007, background): “By contrast, Moss et al. (2006) review a range of literature on the topic and find unproven the case for the malign effects of aid on governance.33 4) Easter’s (2002) persuasive comparison of the evolution of taxation and governance in Poland and Russia after the end of the Soviet system.”
The Politics of Effective Foreign Aid (2010, background): “…of “unearned income” such as natural resource wealth to argue that nontax revenue enables leaders to forgo taxing the citizenry, which results in a decreased demand for representative democracy and good governance (Brautigam & Knack 2004; Moss et al. 2006; Morrison 2007, 2009; Djankov et al. 2008).”
Aid on Demand: African Leaders and the Geography of China's Foreign Assistance (2015, unknown): “16 Leaders may therefore not direct aid to those projects where developmental returns are maximized, but rather where their personal and parochial interests are best served (Cohen 1995; Moss et al. 2007; Wright 2010; Briggs 2014).”
Does foreign aid harm political institutions (2015, background): “A popular version of the thesis that aid undermines governance is spelled out by Moss et al. (2008).2 They propose that governments less dependent on internal sources of revenue tend to be less accountable to their citizens and face weaker incentives to nurture effective public institutions.”