Are Donor Countries Giving More or Less Aid?

Gupta, Sanjeev; Pattillo, Catherine; Wagh, Smita

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9361.2006.00344.x

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“…Gupta et al, 2006). In practice, many donors still use traditional funding methods that effectively ring-fence the aid funds, ostensibly to reduce fiduciary risk.…”

Section: Budget System Failuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Managing and Controlling Extrabudgetary Funds

Radev¹,

Allen²

2007

OECD Journal on Budgeting

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This article addresses issues relating to the establishment and financial management of extrabudgetary funds (EBFs), a large group of government entities and accounts. The article develops a typology of EBFs and argues that they are frequently created because of budget system failures and political economy factors. The article recommends that data on EBFs be consolidated within a unified system of fiscalreporting and proposes an analytical framework that governments might use to evaluate the effectiveness and utility of their EBFs.

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“…Gupta et al, 2006). In practice, many donors still use traditional funding methods that effectively ring-fence the aid funds, ostensibly to reduce fiduciary risk.…”

Section: Budget System Failuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Managing and Controlling Extrabudgetary Funds

Radev¹,

Allen²

2007

OECD Journal on Budgeting

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“…The reason is that aid flows are rather volatile from one year to the other (Gupta, Pattillo and Wagh 2006). The variables that we introduce below, however, can hardly be assumed to explain this volatility.…”

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Why it Pays for Aid Recipients to Take Note of the Millennium Challenge Corporation: Other Donors Do!

2010

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. It is widely believed that the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has grossly fallen short of high expectations raised by the Bush administration in 2002. From the perspective of potential recipient countries, the crucial issue is whether the MCC increased the overall pool of aid resources available to them. We argue that this question extends far beyond the distribution of the limited MCC resources. By employing OLS and treatment-effects estimations, we assess how other US aid agencies and non-US donors reacted to MCC decisions. We find that positive signaling effects tend to dominate possible substitution effects not only for overall US aid but also for multilateral donors. Regarding other bilateral donors the evidence is mixed. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may

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“…Further, the optimists argue that development aid has a positive and statistically signifi cant causal effect on growth over the long run (Arndt, Jones, Tarp, 2010), and Gyimah-Brempong, Racine, and Gyapong (2012) fi nd that aid has a signifi cant and positive impact on physical capital investment. In this way Gupta, Pattillo and Wagh (2006) claim that harmonization of donor practices and alignment of aid fl ows with the priorities of recipient countries can enhance aid effectiveness.…”

Section: Development Aid Effi Ciency Discussionmentioning

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The Role of Remittances as More Efficient Tool of Development Aid in Developing Countries

Stojanov¹,

Strielkowski²

2013

Prague Economic Papers

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Abstract:This paper examines the effectiveness of remittances and offi cial development assistance (ODA) in developing countries. It compares the outcomes of aid poured into the economies of the Third World for decades without any visible effect and remittances transferred by emigrants to their countries of origin which proved to be quite effective. We fi nd that remittances have a stronger net positive effect on the increase of GDP per capita in developing economies than development aid. In addition, remittances tend to be higher than ODA funds, they are absorbed by 80-90 per cent (in comparison with 50 per cent of aid budgets spent on administrative and other costs) and do not hinge on institutional quality. The paper advocates the importance of remittances over ODA and supports the wide usage of coherent development policies executed by the developed Western economies with an aim to enhance transparent and effi cient remittance transfers as one of the best methods to promote development in less-developed countries (e.g. economies in Africa, Asia or Latin America).

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Are Donor Countries Giving More or Less Aid?

Abstract: This Working Paper should not be reported as representing the views of the IMF.

Cited by 34 publications

References 22 publications

Managing and Controlling Extrabudgetary Funds

Managing and Controlling Extrabudgetary Funds

Why it Pays for Aid Recipients to Take Note of the Millennium Challenge Corporation: Other Donors Do!

The Role of Remittances as More Efficient Tool of Development Aid in Developing Countries

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