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Company interests and foreign aid policy: Playing donors out against each other

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2003

Despite the importance attached to conditionality by the donors, and the fact that aid is a crucial income source for the recipient, it is found that ...

Triadic, Conditionality, Foreign aid, Foreign assistance, JEL classification: E61, F35

Company influence on foreign aid disbursement: Is conditionality credible when donors have mixed motives?

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2003

When donors enforce conditionality upon recipients who do not implement the conditions, companies can suffer from cancellation of their contracts with ...

Triadic, Foreign aid, Credibility, Fungibility, Samaritan's dilemma, JEL classification: E61, F35

Company influence on foreign aid disbursement: Is conditionality credible when donors have mixed motives?

Journal Article | Jan 2004

When donors enforce conditionality upon recipients who do not implement the conditions, companies can suffer from cancellation of their contracts with ...

Triadic, Foreign aid, Credibility, Fungibility, Samaritan's dilemma, JEL classification: E61, F35

Managing foreign aid: Lessons from Tanzania

News | 17 Sep 2008

Dr Eirik G. Jansen is a social anthropologist whose research has mainly focused on natural resource management in traditional fisheries in East Africa and land issues in Bangladesh.

Tanzania, Bangladesh

Arab foreign aid

Project | Dec 2006 - Mar 2007

Assessment of foreign aid flows from Arab countries.

Foreign assistance, Arab countries

Rukwa Ruka. The attempt of a foreign donor to uplift a neglected region: A study of the impact of Norwegian aid to Rukwa Region, Tanzania

CMI Report | Oct 2009

From 1978 to 1996 a close link existed between one of Tanzania’s least developed regions and Norway. Norway provided aid to the tune of 400 million ...

Tanzania, Aid impact, Rural development, Norwegian aid

Aid Relationships in Asia. Exploring Ownership in Japanese and Nordic Aid

Edited Book | Jan 2008

This book offers fresh perspectives on the current aid effectiveness and aid relationship debates by focusing on the issue of ownership. The book ...

Development aid, Aid effectiveness, Viet Nam, Laos, Sri Lanka, Mongolia, Nepal, China, Thailand, Japan, Nordic countries

Corruption and Aid Modalities

U4 Issue | Aug 2008

The introduction of ‘new' aid modalities - and in particular general budget support - has increased the interest in the relationship between corruption ...

corruption, anti-corruption, corruption in aid, public financial management and procurement

Arab Foreign Aid: Disbursement Patterns, Aid Policies and Motives

CMI Report | Jan 2007

This report examines Arab aid flows and aid policies, and contrasts them with the broad picture of Western practice in these areas. The lack of analysis ...

Development aid, Aid policy, Arab countries

Arab Foreign Aid: Disbursement Patterns, Aid Policies and Motives

Journal Article | Dec 2007

This paper examines Arab aid flows and aid policies, and contrasts them with the broad picture of Western practice. Most Arab bilateral aid is channelled ...

Assistance, strategic aid, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Egypt, United Arab Emirates

Can We Demonstrate the Difference that Norwegian Aid Makes?

Report in External Series | Jan 2014

What facilitates or impedes the documentation of results of Norwegian aid? This report examines guidelines and practices in the Norwegian aid administration ...

aid

Do donors reduce bilateral aid to countries with restrictive NGO laws?: A panel study, 1993-2012

Journal Article | Feb 2018

Foreign aid contributes to about 10% of gross domestic product of developing countries. To distribute aid in recipient countries, Western donors increasingly ...

NGOs, civil society, foreign aid

Aid, Growth and Peace: A Comparative Analysis

Journal Article | Jan 2006

This article disaggregates aid data to enrich our understanding of the patterns of postconflict aid. We find that the front-loading of aid after a peace ...

Peace, aid, postconflict

Foreign aid to Mozambique, needs and effects. A preliminary report

DERAP Working Paper | Jan 1990

This preliminary study provides an overview of international aid received by Mozambique, and brings out central issues regarding the aid policies of representative ...

Aid, Aid coordination, Mozambique, Africa: Mozambique

International Development and Development Cooperation: Challenges Ahead

Journal Article | Jan 2005

It is likely that the international aid system will continue to evolve along one major axis in the years to come, with a fragmented, foreign-policy focus ...

Development aid, International aid system, Aid priorities

Sri Lanka: Exploring 'Ownership' of Aid-Funded Projects: a Comparative Study of Japanese, Norwegian and Swedish Project Aid

Book Chapter | Jan 2008

Sri Lanka: Exploring 'Ownership' of Aid-Funded Projects: a Comparative Study of Japanese, Norwegia

Development aid, Development projects, Comparative analysis, Sri Lanka

"Economic Aid to Post-conflict Countries: A Methodological Critique of Collier and Hoeffler"

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2005

This paper retests the analysis of "Aid Policy and Growth in Post-Conflict Societies," by Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler (October 2002 and forthcoming ...

Economic aid, Post-conflict, Methodology

Evaluation View: Norwegian Development Aid in the Age of the Corona

Newspaper Op-Ed | Nov 2020

How did Norwegian aid respond to the Covid-19 pandemic? Several new initiatives were launched, the aid budget was adjusted to give more emphasis to vaccines ...

Development Aid, Covid-19, Norway

The changing role of Chinese development aid

CMI Insight | Mar 2020

In recent years, China has significantly increased its development interventions. China is now among the major providers of aid to Africa. Foreign aid ...

development, aid, donors, infrastructure, China, Africa, Norway

Country Evaluation Brief: Palestine

Report in External Series | Jan 2017

The Occupied Palestinian Territories is one of the world’s most aid-dependent countries. Despite overall levels of aid falling since 2009, the Territories ...

Palestine