This paper compares the allocation of private humanitarian aid to that of official humanitarian aid awarded to 140 recipient countries...

Little is known about foreign aid provided by private donors. This paper contributes to closing this research gap by comparing the...

Development assistance has been criticized for a lack of coordination between aid donors. This paper argues that competition for...

The non-distribution constraint of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) would be harder, and financiers as well as recipients could...

The accountability of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) has various dimensions. From an economic perspective, official financiers,...

We assess empirically whether foreign official development assistance (ODA) has been effective in alleviating HIV/AIDS epidemics,...

We assess empirically whether foreign official development assistance (ODA) has been effective in alleviating HIV/AIDS epidemics,...

The targeting of foreign aid within recipient countries is largely unexplored territory. We help close this gap in empirical research...

The regional allocation of aid within recipient countries has been largely ignored in the aid allocation literature. We use geocoded...

We assess the determinants of private donations across a large sample of US based NGOs with foreign aid activities. Our results show...

Aid by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is still widely believed to be superior to official development assistance (ODA)....

Little appears to have changed in foreign aid business since former World Bank President Wolfensohn highlighted corruption as a major...

Performance-based aid has been proposed as an alternative to the failed traditional approach whereby donors make aid conditional on...

Performance-based aid has been proposed as an alternative to the failed traditional approach whereby donors make aid conditional on...

We assess the targeting of foreign aid within recipient countries by employing Poisson estimations on the determinants of the World...

The regional allocation of aid within recipient countries has been largely ignored. We use geocoded data on the location of aid...

We assess the determinants of the wide variation in the efficiency of foreign aid activities across US-based non-governmental...

We assess the determinants of the wide variation in the efficiency of foreign aid activities across US-based non-governmental...

Apart from scaling up foreign aid by NGOs, informed choices of private donors could also encourage an efficient and targeted use of...

Previous literature largely ignores the heterogeneity of aid channels used by each single donor country. We estimate Tobit models to...