Is Aid Oil? An Analysis Of Whether Africa Can Absorb More Aid

By Paul Collier. 2006

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Subfields: Development, Economics and Econometrics, Information Systems

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How Does Taxation Affect the Quality of Governance (2007, background): “27 I like very much Paul Collier’s concept of sovereign rents: ‘that part of public revenue over which there is no effective scrutiny’ (Collier 2006: 1484). outcome?”
Does Foreign Aid Target the Poorest? (2016, background): “Altincekic and Bearce 2014; Bermeo 2016; Collier 2006; van de Walle 2007. this is happening to project aid, which is relatively easy to monitor and target, then it should be more likely with other forms of aid.”
Breaking the resource curse: Transparency in the natural resource sector and the extractive industries transparency initiative (2014, unknown): “Moreover, Collier (2006) suggests that compared to non-oil exporting countries, oil exporting governments do not “ spend more, they tax less ” (1484 – 1485).”
Citizens, legislators, and executive disclosure: the political determinants of fiscal transparency (2013, background): “Finally, we considered exploring the effect of donors on fiscal transparency in aid-dependent countries (Bräutigam, 2000; Bräutigam & Knack, 2004; Collier, 2006).”
The illusory leader: natural resources, taxation and accountability (2013, background): “It was initially developed by Collier and Hoe er (2009), who dene rents as the di¤erence between the resource price and the extraction costs.”
The Politics of Effective Foreign Aid (2010, background): “That said, Smith’s theory does not account for the differences between types of nontax revenue, even though oil revenue and foreign aid are obtained through very different modalities (Collier 2006).”
Oil, Nontax Revenue, and the Redistributional Foundations of Regime Stability (2009, unknown): “…perspective would indicate that nontax revenue has not declined, and that therefore regimes in the developing world are not necessarily becoming less stable+ 89+ See Collier 2006; and Gibson and Hoffman 2007+ 90+ These are my calculations, based on OECD data on foreign aid and Freedom House’s…”
Climate Change and Africa (2008, background): “Unfortunately, to date, Africa’s oil revenues have been less well used than its aid receipts, so this substitution need not be beneficial (Collier, 2006).”
More Dollars than Sense: Refining Our Knowledge of Development Finance Using AidData (2011, background): “On this point, also see Clemens and Radelet (2003) and Collier (2006).”
Foreign Aid and Regime Change: A Role for Donor Intent (2011, unknown): “Despite the disagreements, strong conclusions are often drawn; Djankov et al. (2008) go so far as to claim that aid is a bigger curse than oil in preventing democratic transitions.”