Aid and good governance: Examining aggregate unintended effects of aid

Food aid and governance

Arguing that food security management belongs to the core of government tasks and has been since Biblical times, we assess current practices in this domain and their effect on local governance, with special reference to the food aid operations of the World Food Program. Within the food security management task, we distinguish three basic elements: (i) entitlement: to provide income entitlements...

Does Aid Affect Governance?

Health aid and governance in developing countries.

Despite anecdotal evidence that the quality of governance in recipient countries affects the allocation of international health aid, there is no quantitative evidence on the magnitude of this effect, or on which dimensions of governance influence donor decisions. We measure health-aid flows over 1995-2006 for 109 aid recipients, matching aid data with measures of different dimensions of governa...

Aid Effectiveness, Governance and Public Investment

To analyze ways in which aid can be made more effective, we develop a growth model in which aid finances infrastructure investment and pro-poor spending. We assume that the recipient countries are aid-dependent in the early phase of development and ultimately become independent. In the model, donors can accelerate the independence of a recipient from aid by investing in infrastructure. We demon...

Good Governance and Development Aid: Risks and Challenges of E-Government in Jordan

Reforms and innovations in the governmental and bureaucratic apparatus of the nation-state are an important pre-requisite for development. This paper provides suggestive evidence that e-government and the related view of the neo-liberal state implicit in the good governance discourse put forward by the International Development Agencies might not be conducive to rapid late development. The New ...