When is foreign aid policy credible : aid dependence and conditionality

By Jakob Svensson. 2000

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Subfields: Development, Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research

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Do Crises Induce Reform? Simple Empirical Tests of Conventional Wisdom (2001, background): “In general, unconditional aid is seen as delaying reform, as in the work of Fernandez-Arias (1997), Svensson (1999), and Drazen (1999).”
The political economy of conditionality: An empirical analysis of World Bank loan disbursements (2009, background): “Svensson (2000) develops the Samaritan's dilemma explanation where conditionality enforcement is not credible because the donor prefers to provide aid in all cases.”
Aid Volatility: An Empirical Assessment (2003, background): “At the theoretical level, Svensson (2000) shows that when donors are unable to monitor the recipient country’s reform effort, a second-best outcome arises in which aid disbursements are tied to economic performance, thus rendering aid procyclical.”
The Economics of International Aid (2003, methodology): “Using data from 200 structural adjustment programs, Svensson (2002, p3) finds “no link between a country’s reform effort, or fulfillment of ‘conditionality’, and the disbursement rate” of aid funds. The World Bank’s own internal evaluations find a similar disconnect between disbursement and conditio”
Foreign Aid And The Business Cycle (2001, background): “Svensson 1995 characterizes the optimal disbursements of aid within a twoodate agency model of the relationship between an altruistic donor and a pair of recipients.”
Natural resources, aid, and democratization: A best-case scenario (2007, background): “Formal models of donor-recipient relations are scarce, with some exceptions being the work of Mosley (1992) and Svensson (2000, 2003) .”
Roads out of poverty? Assessing the links between aid, public investment, growth, and poverty reduction (2005, unknown): “Svensson (2000) for instance argues that in a country where the government's incentives to undertake structural reform are subject to moral hazard problems, conditionality (or outright delegation of part of the aid budget to an external agency) may help to strengthen the impact of aid on poverty.”
International coordination and the effectiveness of aid (2015, background): “The literature has further discussed the mechanisms by which harmonization could reduce the risk of elite capture (Azam & Laffont, 2003; Bourguignon & Platteau, 2011; Gaspart & Platteau, 2011; Svensson, 2000, 2003).”