Foreign aid and rent-seeking

By Jakob Svensson. 2000

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Subfields: Development, Economics and Econometrics, Information Systems

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IMF Programs: Who is Chosen and What are the Effects? (2005, neutral): “A recent study by Thacker (1999) used a different form of U.”
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],…”
Expressive behavior in economics and politics (2010, background): “There are social costs because of rent-seeking incentives associated with contestability of aid (Svensson, 2000).”
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).”
Racing to the bottom? Chinese development projects and trade union involvement in Africa (2018, background): “…donors have traditionally sought to encourage in partner countries, the paper relates to the literature on the impact of foreign aid on political institutions and governance (see e.g. Svensson, 2000; Alesina and Weder, 2002; Bräutigam and Knack, 2004; Djankov et al., 2008; Jones and Tarp, 2016).”
Tax me, but spend wisely? Sources of public finance and government accountability (2015, background): “…share of funds allocated to them by the central government, Olken (2007) estimates that more than 20% of grants that local governments in Indonesia receive to finance road projects are diverted, and Svensson (2000) finds some evidence that aid increases corruption in politically divided countries.”
The Determinants of Aid Allocation by Regional Multilateral Development Banks and United Nations Agencies (2003, background): “Their finding with respect to total aid flows is confirmed by Svensson (2000) who also fails to find evidence that countries with less corruption are systematically rewarded with higher aid.”
Institutions, Foreign Direct Investment, and Domestic Investment: Crowding Out or Crowding In? (2016, background): “foreign aid (Asiedu et al., 2009; Svensson, 2000), efficiency in the banking sector (Morck et al.”
The social cost of rent seeking in Europe (2009, methodology): “This is as in Svensson (2000), Mauro (2004), and Park et al. (2005). On the other hand, Hillman and Ursprung (2000) distinguish between rent seeking by insiders and outsiders under different conditions of outsider access to rents.”