Major DAC donors are widely criticized for weak targeting of aid, selfish aid motives and insufficient coordination. The emergence of an increasing number of new donors may further complicate the coordination of international aid efforts. On the...

We investigate the importance of geo-strategic and commercial motives for the allocation of German aid to 138 countries over the 1973-2010 period. We find that geo-strategic and commercial motives matter. When we relate them to the political color of...

We empirically analyze how other aid agencies, within and outside the United States, reacted to the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). We find that positive signaling effects dominate possible substitution effects. Striving for MCC eligibility...

We investigate whether foreign aid affects refugee flows from recipient countries. Combining refugee data on 141 origin countries over the 1976–2013 p

This article provides a survey of the aid budget literature and examines the determinants of the development aid efforts of 22 DAC members over the 1976-2011 period. In fixed effects regressions, we identify aid inertia, per-capita GDP, the creation...

Aid given by non-DAC donors (“new donors”) gains increasing attention. The recent literature moved beyond the presentation of qualitative evidence to more rigorous analyses based on improved data collection. In this paper we investigate the lessons...

This article investigates whether China’s foreign aid is particularly prone to capture by political leaders of aid-receiving countries. We examine whe