Evidence on Changes in Aid Allocation Criteria

Claessens, Stijn; Cassimon, Danny; Van Campenhout, Bjorn

dc.creator	Claessens, Stijn
dc.creator	Cassimon, Danny
dc.creator	Van Campenhout, Bjorn
dc.date	2012-03-30T07:12:38Z
dc.date	2012-03-30T07:12:38Z
dc.date	2009-06-30
dc.date.accessioned	2023-02-18T19:41:30Z
dc.date.available	2023-02-18T19:41:30Z
dc.identifier	World Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier	1564-698X
dc.identifier	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4500
dc.identifier.uri	http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/249985
dc.description	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.
dc.publisher	World Bank
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.rights	World Bank
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
dc.type	Journal Article
dc.type	Journal Article
dc.coverage	Turkey