A Primer on Foreign Aid

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China & India as Africa's New Donors: The Impact of Aid on Development (2008, background): “Four types of impacts have been identified: on growth, on distribution, on governance, and on the environment (Asian Drivers Team, 2005; Radelet, 2006 ; Kaplinsky et al.”
Evidence on Changes in Aid Allocation Criteria (2009, background): “…as the 1960s, research has shown that political and strategic interests rivaled concerns for growth, poverty reduction, and other economic objectives in aid allocation, at least until the early 1990s (Radelet 2006 and Easterly 2003 provide general literature reviews that also cover aid allocation).”
More Dollars than Sense: Refining Our Knowledge of Development Finance Using AidData (2011, background): “Surveying the " more aid " school, Radelet (2006) identifies three reasons why aid might increase growth: increased investment capital, increases in worker productivity thanks to advances in health and education, and technology or knowledge transfer.”