Do we know what we think we know? Aid fragmentation and effectiveness revisited

Kai Gehring, Katharina Michaelowa (), Axel Dreher and Franziska Spörri
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Kai Gehring: Heidelberg University
Franziska Spörri: University of Zurich

No 185, Courant Research Centre: Poverty, Equity and Growth - Discussion Papers from Courant Research Centre PEG

Abstract: Aid fragmentation is widely recognized as being detrimental to development outcomes. We re-investigate the impact of fragmentation on aid effectiveness in the context of growth, bureaucratic policy, and education, focusing on a number of conceptually different indicators of fragmentation, and paying attention to potentially heterogeneous effects across countries. Our results demonstrate the lack of robustness and any systematic pattern. This stresses the importance of questioning the sweeping conclusions drawn by much of the previous literature.

Keywords: aid effectiveness; fragmentation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F35 O11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-09-17
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