RK Fleck, C Kilby - Review of Development Economics, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
This paper examines the role of US domestic politics in aid allocation using panel data on 119 countries from 1960 to 1997. Employing proxies for four allocation criteria (development …
K Basu - Social Choice and Welfare, 2007 - Springer
It is a widely accepted principle of economics that if two or more adults voluntarily agree to a contract or an exchange that has no negative fall-out on others, then the government should …
E Villanger - European Economic Review, 2006 - Elsevier
The evidence on conditionality indicates that this instrument sometimes works, and sometimes does not work. We suggest that third parties to the donor–recipient relationship …
Does World Bank lending promote deregulation with stronger incentives and critical resources or slow the process by blunting the impact of crises and indirectly promoting state …
A John, VH Storr - The Journal of Private Enterprise, 2009 - papers.ssrn.com
The rival opinions expressed by Jeffrey Sachs in his book The End of Poverty and by William Easterly in The White Man's Burden epitomize the dichotomy in the economics literature …
K Basu - World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, 2014 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper investigates the role of fiscal guarantees in promoting infrastructure investment. Infrastructure is a critical driver of economic growth, but infrastructure entails significant up …
K Ivanov - International Politics, 2008 - Springer
Abstract This article analyzes European Union (EU) conditionality regarding the safety of Central and East European nuclear power reactors. Bulgaria, Lithuania, and Slovakia …
R Berlinschi - The Review of International Organizations, 2010 - Springer
This paper analyzes the conditions under which reputation concerns induce donors and recipients to respect conditional aid contracts. Donors enforce conditionality if the benefits of …