Modelling Aid Allocation: Issues, Approaches and Results

Mark McGillivray

No DP2003-49, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: There is a widespread view that political criteria have received less emphasis in aid allocation since the end of the cold war, with a greater share of aid subsequently being based on developmental criteria. An observed increase in aid effectiveness is attributed to this shift. A reasonably large literature on aid allocation supports this view: a number of influential, widely cited studies conclude that developmental criteria played no role in the 1970s and 1980s inter-recipient aid allocation. This paper argues that the shift is not as significant as commonly thought.

Keywords: Economic assistance and foreign aid; Economic development; Econometric models (Economic development); Regression analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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