Do we know what we think we know?: aid fragmentation and effectiveness revisited

Aid fragmentation is widely recognized as being detrimental to development outcomes. We re-investigate the impact of fragmentation on aid effectiveness in the context of growth, bureaucratic policy, and education, focusing on a number of conceptually different indicators of fragmentation, and paying...

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Weitere Verfasser: Gehring, Kai (BerichterstatterIn) , Michaelowa, Katharina (BerichterstatterIn) , Dreher, Axel (BerichterstatterIn) , Spörri, Franziska (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Göttingen Courant Research Centre 2015
Schriftenreihe:Discussion papers / Courant Research Centre 185
In: Discussion papers (185)

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Online-Zugang:Resolving-System, Volltext: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/118775
Verlag, Volltext: http://www2.vwl.wiso.uni-goettingen.de/courant-papers/CRC-PEG_DP_185.pdf
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Verfasserangaben:Kai Gehring; Katharina Michaelowa; Axel Dreher; Franziska Spörri
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Zusammenfassung:Aid fragmentation is widely recognized as being detrimental to development outcomes. We re-investigate the impact of fragmentation on aid effectiveness in the context of growth, bureaucratic policy, and education, focusing on a number of conceptually different indicators of fragmentation, and paying attention to potentially heterogeneous effects across countries. Our results demonstrate the lack of robustness and any systematic pattern. This stresses the importance of questioning the sweeping conclusions drawn by much of the previous literature
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