Do aid donors specialize and coordinate within recipient countries? The case of Malawi

Peter Nunnenkamp, Albena Sotirova and Rainer Thiele

No 1991, Kiel Working Papers from Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel)

Abstract: Acknowledging that aid proliferation and a lack of coordination impair aid effectiveness, donors have repeatedly promised to specialize and better coordinate their aid activities, most notably in the Paris Declaration of 2005. We exploit geocoded aid data from Malawi to assess whether the country's bilateral and multilateral donors have acted accordingly at the district and sector level. We do not find compelling evidence for increased aid specialization after the Paris Declaration, and the regional division of labor among donors may even have deteriorated. Our within-country evidence thus broadly corroborates what previous studies found at the national level of recipient countries.

Keywords: foreign aid; aid proliferation; donor coordination; Malawi (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F35 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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