Understanding the development effects of official aid is crucial to building a better bridge
between research and policy. This paper reviews the current evidence regarding the impact …

Abstract This Special Issue explores macroeconomic effects of aid from various perspectives
through a blend of studies, both conceptual and empirical in nature. The overall aim is to …

The Pacific islands is one of the most aid‐dependent regions in the world. This article
examines developments in the delivery of foreign aid to the region since the year 2000, a …

We contribute to the literature on foreign aid effectiveness and energy poverty by examining
the effect of foreign aid on energy poverty. Using five rounds of the Demographic and Health …

This study utilized instrumental variable techniques and the Driscoll-Kraay estimator to
examine the effect of democracy and natural resources on income inequality using a …

Papua New Guinea is going through a crisis: A concentration on conventional approaches
to development, including an unsustainable reliance on mining, forestry, and foreign aid …

We analyze oil export behavior by Saudi Arabia and the Rest of OPEC since 1973. In the
literature there has been a wide range of estimates of their correlation: from positive, to zero …

Past studies of US foreign aid and UN voting have not taken into account the different
incentives of leaders based on regime type. Democratic and nondemocratic leaders use …

This paper investigates the impact of foreign aid on economic growth in Ethiopia using time
series data for the period 1974 to 2011. Following the most recent literatures, the paper …

This paper examines the impact of foreign aid on economic growth in Sierra Leone, a
country where an empirical econometric study on aid effectiveness is yet to exist. Using a …