Publication: Sowing and Reaping : Institutional Quality and Project Outcomes in Developing Countries
dc.contributor.author | Dollar, David | |
dc.contributor.author | Levin, Victoria | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-22T21:10:34Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-06-22T21:10:34Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2005-02 | |
dc.description.abstract | Much of the academic debate on the effectiveness of foreign aid is centered on the relationship between aid and growth. Different aid-growth studies find conflicting results: aid promotes growth everywhere; aid has a zero or negative impact on growth everywhere; or the effect of aid on growth depends on recipient-specific characteristics, such as the quality of institutions and policies. Although these studies fuel an interesting debate, cross-sectional macroeconomic studies cannot be the last word on the topic of aid effectiveness. In this paper, Dollar and Levin introduce microeconomic evidence on factors conducive to the success of aid-funded projects in developing countries. The authors use the success rate of World Bank-financed projects in the 1990s, as determined by the Operations Evaluation Department, as their dependent variable. Using instrumental variables estimation, the authors find that existence of high-quality institutions in a recipient country raises the probability that aid will be used effectively. There is also some evidence that geography matters, but location in Sub-Saharan Africa is a more robust indicator of lower project success rate than tropical climate. The authors proceed to disaggregate the success rate of World Bank projects by lending instrument type and by investment sector, finding that different institutions are more important for different types of projects. The finding of a strong relationship between institutional quality and project success serves to provide further support to the hypothesis that aid effectiveness is conditional on institutions and policies of the recipient country. | en |
dc.identifier | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/02/5642288/sowing-reaping-institutional-quality-project-outcomes-developing-countries | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1596/1813-9450-3524 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10986/8885 | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.publisher | World Bank, Washington, DC | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Policy Research Working Paper; No. 3524 | |
dc.rights | CC BY 3.0 IGO | |
dc.rights.holder | World Bank | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ | |
dc.subject | AID | |
dc.subject | AID ALLOCATION | |
dc.subject | AID FLOWS | |
dc.subject | CHECKLIST | |
dc.subject | CIVIL LIBERTIES | |
dc.subject | DEMOCRACY | |
dc.subject | DEVELOPED COUNTRIES | |
dc.subject | DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE | |
dc.subject | DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS | |
dc.subject | DEVELOPMENT ISSUES | |
dc.subject | DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS | |
dc.subject | DIMINISHING RETURNS | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC GROWTH | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC POLICIES | |
dc.subject | ECONOMIC REVIEW | |
dc.subject | ECONOMICS | |
dc.subject | ENDOWMENTS | |
dc.subject | HEALTH SECTOR | |
dc.subject | HUMAN CAPITAL | |
dc.subject | HUMAN RIGHTS | |
dc.subject | INCOME | |
dc.subject | INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS | |
dc.subject | INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT | |
dc.subject | LAWS | |
dc.subject | LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES | |
dc.subject | NUTRITION | |
dc.subject | POLICY RESEARCH | |
dc.subject | POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS | |
dc.subject | POLITICAL RIGHTS | |
dc.subject | PRODUCTIVITY | |
dc.subject | PROPERTY RIGHTS | |
dc.subject | PUBLIC INVESTMENT | |
dc.subject | PUBLIC SECTOR | |
dc.subject | SAVINGS | |
dc.subject | UNDERDEVELOPMENT | |
dc.title | Sowing and Reaping : Institutional Quality and Project Outcomes in Developing Countries | en |
dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
okr.crossref.title | Sowing and Reaping: Institutional Quality and Project Outcomes in Developing Countries | |
okr.date.doiregistration | 2025-04-10T09:20:44.991622Z | |
okr.doctype | Publications & Research::Policy Research Working Paper | |
okr.doctype | Publications & Research | |
okr.docurl | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/02/5642288/sowing-reaping-institutional-quality-project-outcomes-developing-countries | |
okr.globalpractice | Governance | |
okr.globalpractice | Health, Nutrition, and Population | |
okr.guid | 573271468778801852 | |
okr.identifier.doi | 10.1596/1813-9450-3524 | |
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum | 000090341_20050306121837 | |
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum | 5642288 | |
okr.identifier.report | WPS3524 | |
okr.language.supported | en | |
okr.pdfurl | http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2005/03/06/000090341_20050306121837/Rendered/PDF/wps3524.pdf | en |
okr.topic | Health Monitoring and Evaluation | |
okr.topic | Public Sector Development::Decentralization | |
okr.topic | Environmental Economics and Policies | |
okr.topic | Health Economics and Finance | |
okr.topic | Development Economics and Aid Effectiveness | |
okr.topic | Health, Nutrition and Population::Public Health Promotion | |
okr.topic | Governance::Governance Indicators | |
okr.unit | Development Research Group (DECRG) | |
okr.volume | 1 of 1 | |
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relation.isSeriesOfPublication.latestForDiscovery | 26e071dc-b0bf-409c-b982-df2970295c87 |
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