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Social Capital and Lobbying for Development Projects
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Choosing to Target: What Types of Countries Get Different Types of World Bank Projects
In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 62, Heft 3, S. 422-458
ISSN: 1086-3338
Well-governed countries are more likely to make use of foreign aid for the purposes of economic development and poverty alleviation. Therefore, if aid agencies are providing funds for the sake of development, these countries should receive more aid and categorically different types of aid as compared with poorly governed countries. In poorly governed countries aid should be given in forms that allow for less discretion. Using an original data set of all World Bank projects from 1996 to 2002, the author distinguishes programmatic projects from investment projects and national from subnational investment projects. If the World Bank allows more discretion in well-governed countries, then it will choose to provide programmatic and national aid for these recipients. The author presents evidence that the World Bank provides a larger proportion of national investment lending in better-governed countries. With regard to programmatic lending, he finds mixed evidence. Among counties eligible for International Development Association (IDA) aid, good governance surprisingly is associated with a lower proportion of programmatic aid, whereas for International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) borrowers, good governance is associated with a higher proportion. The author subjects these results to a number of robustness checks. Although he confirms the existing result in the literature that the World Bank provides larger overall amounts of aid to better-governed countries, his examination of the disaggregated data leads to questioning whether both lending wings of the World Bank are designing aid programs in the most prodevelopment way possible.
Accountability, Participation and Foreign Aid Effectiveness
In: International studies review, Band 12, Heft 2, S. 218-243
ISSN: 1468-2486
Choosing to target: what types of countries get different types of World Bank projects
In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 62, Heft 3, S. 422-458
ISSN: 0043-8871
World Affairs Online
Accountability, participation and foreign aid effectiveness
In: International studies review, Band 12, Heft 2, S. 218-243
ISSN: 1521-9488
World Affairs Online
World Bank Reform Should Start at the Top
In: International studies review, Band 11, Heft 4, S. 778-780
ISSN: 1468-2486
Explaining Variation in the Structural Correlates of Protest Participation
In: APSA 2009 Toronto Meeting Paper
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Reforming the World Bank: Twenty Years of Trial - and Error
In: International studies review, Band 11, Heft 4, S. 778-780
ISSN: 1521-9488
Book Reviews - Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World
In: Journal of international affairs, Band 57, Heft 1, S. 261
ISSN: 0022-197X
The Politics of Effective Foreign Aid
In: Annual review of political science, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 61-80
ISSN: 1545-1577
There is little consensus on whether foreign aid can reliably increase economic growth in recipient countries. We review the literature on aid allocation and provide new evidence suggesting that since 1990 aid donors reward political contestation but not political inclusiveness. Then we examine some challenges in analyzing cross-national data on the aid/growth relationship. Finally, we discuss the causal mechanisms through which foreign aid might affect growth and argue that politics can be viewed as both (a) an exogenous constraint that conditions the causal process linking aid to growth and (b) an endogenous factor that is affected by foreign aid and in turn impacts economic growth.
The Politics of Effective Foreign Aid
In: Annual review of political science, Band 13
ISSN: 1545-1577
There is little consensus on whether foreign aid can reliably increase economic growth in recipient countries. We review the literature on aid allocation and provide new evidence suggesting that since 1990 aid donors reward political contestation but not political inclusiveness. Then we examine some challenges in analyzing cross-national data on the aid/growth relationship. Finally, we discuss the causal mechanisms through, which foreign aid might affect growth and argue that politics can be viewed as both (a) an exogenous constraint that conditions the causal process linking aid to growth and (b) an endogenous factor that is affected by foreign aid and in turn impacts economic growth. Adapted from the source document.
The Politics of Effective Foreign Aid
In: Annual review of political science, Band 13, S. 61-81
ISSN: 1094-2939
Foreign Aid and Political Support: How Politicians' Aid Oversight Capacity and Voter Information Condition Credit-Giving
In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 75, Heft 1, S. 1-42
ISSN: 1086-3338
Foreign Aid and Quality of Governance
This chapter reviews empirical literature on foreign aid and QoG. The chapter begins with a description of how scholarship on foreign aid and QoG developed in conjunction with prominent debates in the development community. The chapter discusses three major debates: whether or not QoG moderates foreign aid effectiveness, whether or not donors give aid selectively based on QoG, and whether or not foreign aid undermines or can help build QoG. With regard to aid effectiveness, the most recent literature suggests that aid can be effective even under conditions of poor QoG. With regard to selectivity, the existing literature shows an increasing selectivity for overall aid flows since the end of the Cold War and provides evidence of selectivity in terms of type of aid. The evidence that aid undermines QoG is not as strong as has been claimed by some of the initial studies in this literature. The chapter concludes by suggesting ways forward for all three literatures.
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