Purpose The purpose of this paper is to engage a contentious World Bank publication
beyond its controversy. In particular, it assesses mechanisms that facilitate elite capture of …

This thesis estimates the capture of foreign aid in developing countries, where elites divert
the aid intended for economic growth and poverty reduction to offshore bank deposits in tax …

Aid may influence accountability relations in recipient countries in various direct and indirect
ways. One set of mechanisms are the ways in which aid and aid donors affect taxation and …

In 2011, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) announced three new
development projects in conjunction with Canadian NGOs and mining companies. The total …

Foreign aid, or assistance–financial, technical or material–provided by one country to
another with the aim of promoting socioeconomic development has been around for more …

The subject of foreign aid remains widely debated in academic and policy-making circles.
There has been a recent stream of studies raising doubts about the mechanisms by which …

The world of international development assistance is brimming with broad concepts that
sound widely appealing and essentially uncontroversial. Some of these concepts pertain to …

Fighting poverty by supporting economic growth and development in the developing
countries has been, and continues to be, a major objective of foreign aid, originally …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an empirical analysis on aid-related
misconduct and sectoral regulatory failures. Via a series of Oxfam revelations, this paper …

Governance meets aid effectiveness. 1 This paper analyses current developments in 'mutual
accountability'relations between donors and aid recipients and how these relate to the …