The increasing importance of donor countries operating outside of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) challenges the...

At least since the large refugee movements to the EU in 2015, many policymakers see foreign aid as a means to stem migrant inflows....

While policymakers hope to stem migration flows by giving foreign aid, existing empirical evidence points in the opposite direction:...

The increasing importance of donor countries operating outside of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) challenges the...

A core result of the aid allocation literature is that the quality of governance in recipient countries does not affect the amounts of...

Acknowledging that aid proliferation and a lack of coordination impair aid effectiveness, donors have repeatedly promised to...

Acknowledging that aid proliferation and a lack of coordination impair aid effectiveness, donors have repeatedly promised to...

While policymakers hope to stem migration flows by giving foreign aid, existing empirical evidence points in the opposite direction:...

The aid allocation literature has neglected gender-specific needs for aid. We assess the hypothesis that gender inequality in...

Aid proliferation and a lack of coordination are widely recognized as serious problems for aid effectiveness, and donors have...

We show that the impact of foreign aid on bureaucratic quality in recipient countries varies with the mode of delivery. Specifically,...

We show that the impact of foreign aid on bureaucratic quality in recipient countries varies with the mode of delivery. Specifically,...

We analyze the aid portfolio of various bilateral and multilateral donors, testing whether they have prioritised aid in line with the...

A needs-based targeting of aid in priority sectors such as health and education should have an important say on whether donors help...

How do NGOs spend their development assistance? This column discusses research showing that NGO aid is no better targeted to the...

We present a two-step approach of assessing whether major donors of foreign aid have met recent demands for less proliferated and...