Evidence on Changes in Aid Allocation Criteria

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Evidence on Changes in Aid Allocation Criteria

creativeworkseries.issn	1564-698X
dc.contributor.author	Claessens, Stijn
dc.contributor.author	Cassimon, Danny
dc.contributor.author	Van Campenhout, Bjorn
dc.date.accessioned	2012-03-30T07:12:38Z
dc.date.available	2012-03-30T07:12:38Z
dc.date.issued	2009-06-30
dc.description.abstract	Have donors changed their aid-allocation criteria over the past three decades toward greater selectivity, a frequently stated goal of the international development community? Using data on how 22 donors allocated their bilateral aid among 147 countries over 1970–2004, the article finds that after the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 and especially in the late 1990s, bilateral aid responded more to poverty and the quality of the policy and institutional environment in the recipient countries. Furthermore, the sensitivity of aid allocation to the country's size and its debt burden has declined over time. These results are robust to different samples and model specifications, various econometric techniques, and alternative measures of institutional quality. While the specific factors causing these changes cannot be identified—these presumably include geopolitical and economic concerns and the many changes in the international aid architecture—donors still differ greatly in their selectivity. This suggests that further, multifaceted reforms are needed to ensure even greater selectivity of aid.	en
dc.identifier.citation	World Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/4500
dc.identifier.issn	1564-698X
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/4500
dc.publisher	World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseries	World Bank Economic Review
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.subject	aid
dc.subject	aid allocation
dc.subject	aid coordination
dc.subject	aid flows
dc.subject	bilateral aid
dc.subject	development assistance
dc.subject	development finance
dc.subject	development goals
dc.subject	development models
dc.subject	development policy
dc.subject	development programs
dc.subject	economic growth
dc.subject	environmental issues
dc.subject	exports
dc.subject	imports
dc.subject	international aid
dc.subject	international development
dc.subject	priorities
dc.subject	targeting
dc.subject	world development indicators
dc.title	Evidence on Changes in Aid Allocation Criteria	en
dc.type	Journal Article	en
dc.type	Article de journal	fr
dc.type	Artículo de revista	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crosscuttingsolutionarea	Gender
okr.crosscuttingsolutionarea	Fragility, Conflict, and Violence
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-05-06T11:18:12.090292Z
okr.doctype	Journal Article
okr.globalpractice	Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management
okr.globalpractice	Social Protection and Labor
okr.globalpractice	Environment and Natural Resources
okr.globalpractice	Finance and Markets
okr.globalpractice	Health, Nutrition, and Population
okr.identifier.report	2
okr.language.supported	en
okr.pagenumber	185
okr.pagenumber	208
okr.pdfurl	wber_23_2_185.pdf	en
okr.peerreview	Academic Peer Review
okr.region.country	Turkiye
okr.topic	Macroeconomics and Economic Growth
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population
okr.topic	Environment
okr.topic	Development Economics and Aid Effectiveness
okr.topic	Gender::Gender and Health
okr.topic	Economic Theory and Research
okr.topic	Environmental Economics and Policies
okr.topic	Banks and Banking Reform
okr.topic	Finance and Financial Sector Development::Debt Markets
okr.topic	Finance and Financial Sector Development::Bankruptcy and Resolution of Financial Distress
okr.topic	Finance and Financial Sector Development::Access to Finance
okr.topic	Conflict and Development::Post Conflict Reconstruction
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor::Disability
okr.volume	23
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