Aid with multiple personalities
By Simeon Djankov, Jose G. Montalvo, Marta Reynal-Querol. 2009
156 citations recorded by the source corpus.
The existing research on foreign aid offers inconclusive evidence on the factors that make aid effective. In this paper, the authors test the hypothesis that the success of foreign aid depends on the fragmentation of donors. The authors study the supply of aid money in 112 developing countries over the period 1960-1999 and find that the presence of multiple donors in a given country renders aid ineffective. This is in part because donor fragmentation increases corruption in the recipient country's government. In particular, if a country receiving the average amount of official development assistance (oda) (3 percent of GDP) goes from a single donor to the sample mean of donor fragmentation, corruption increases by 7 percent to 10 percent.
Subfields: Development, Information Systems, Safety Research
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In Development
- Sam Jones
- F. Tarp
- N. Eubank
- Stephen F. Knack
- William R. Easterly
- Axel Dreher
- Sandrina B. Moreira
- K. Morrison
In Information Systems
In Safety Research
Citations in the corpus
- Does foreign aid harm political institutions (2015, background): “In part, this may reflect donor fragmentation, which has been shown to harm recipient-government bureaucratic quality (Knack and Rahman, 2007; Djankov et al., 2009).”
- Aid Quality and Donor Rankings (2010, methodology): “For our aid selectivity variables, we compute measures of policy and poverty selectivity using the method of Dollar and Levin (2006). Specifically, we regress the log of aid from donor i to recipient j on three variables for the recipient j: the log of its population, its GDP per capita (adjusted fo”