The Politics of Effective Foreign Aid
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6232680 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph Wright (0000-0003-4429-9035, Department of Political Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802), Matthew S Winters (0000-0002-3693-9461, Pennsylvania State University), Matthew Winter (0000-0001-6192-9874), Matthew Winters (Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois 61820) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 61-80 |
| Publication date | 2010-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Political Science (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1094-2939 • E-ISSN: 1545-1577 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev.polisci.032708.143524 |
| OpenAlex | W2103300353 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 92 |
| References cited | 114 |
There is little consensus on whether foreign aid can reliably increase economic growth in recipient countries. We review the literature on aid allocation and provide new evidence suggesting that since 1990 aid donors reward political contestation but not political inclusiveness. Then we examine some challenges in analyzing cross-national data on the aid/growth relationship. Finally, we discuss the causal mechanisms through which foreign aid might affect growth and argue that politics can be viewed as both (a) an exogenous constraint that conditions the causal process linking aid to growth and (b) an endogenous factor that is affected by foreign aid and in turn impacts economic growth
Aid effectiveness · Constraint (computer-aided design · Developing country · Development aid · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Process (computing · Public economics · Computer Science · Economic Growth and Development · International Development and Aid · Law · Religion, Society, and Development
Governing Security after War
Making Medicines in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda in the Aids Era
Norms or interests? Explaining EU aid allocation to Asean through strategic, normative, and economic lenses
Does foreign aid stimulate economic growth in developing countries? Further evidence in both aggregate and disaggregated samples
Evaluating explanations for poverty selectivity in foreign aid
Mechanisms of the ‘Aid Curse’
Aid, the Real Exchange Rate and Why Policy Matters
Reconstructive surgery outreach to low- and middle-income countries
The Political Economy of Receiving Aid
Aid to Africa’s agriculture towards building physical capital
Assessing the impact of international conservation aid on deforestation in sub-Saharan Africa
Measuring and explaining the willingness to pay for forest conservation
Food aid and violent conflict
Do Countries Use Foreign Aid to Buy Geopolitical Influence? Evidence from Donor Campaigns for Temporary UN Security Council Seats
Does repression work
US Military Deployments and the Risk of Coup d’État
Political Settlement and China’s Overseas Operation
American Diplomacy and Export-Oriented Industrialization on Taiwan
Backing Despots? Foreign Aid and the Survival of Autocratic Regimes
Aid grants versus technical cooperation grants
Buying the best favor
Who shapes the environmental policy in the global south? Unpacking the reality of Nepal
Aid for taxation and representation? The effect of foreign tax assistance on democracy in the Global South
Paradiplomacy as nation-building
A dynamic modelling of the regional and international political economy of US aid to Pakistan
Can foreign aid donors credibly threaten to suspend aid? Evidence from a cross-national survey of donor officials
European Aid and Governance
Does Norwegian Aid Reward Equitable Access to Health in Recipient States? Assessing a ‘Moral Superpower’s’ Aid to Pro-Poor Development, 1990–2019
Governance in the Aftermath of NeoLiberalism
Of terrorism and revenue
Mass protests and the resource curse
Reducing postconflict coup risk
Did Aid Promote Democracy in Africa? The Role of Technical Assistance in Africa’s Transitions
Revenue Substitution? How Foreign Aid Inflows Moderate the Effect of Bilateral Trade Pressures on Labor Rights
Barriers to Political Analysis in Aid Bureaucracies
Aiding and Abetting
More Dollars than Sense
Looking for advice
Coups d’État and Foreign Aid
Explaining Global Patterns of International Aid for Linked Biodiversity Conservation and Development
Foreign Aid Responses to Political Liberalization
When aid builds states
The Influence of Aid Changes on African Election Outcomes
Refugees, Economic Capacity, and Host State Repression
Reconsidering the Effect of Political Regime Type on Foreign Aid Effectiveness
Colonial Legacy and Foreign Aid
Does foreign aid harm political institutions
US foreign aid and economic policy concessions
Aid without roots
Deadly Politics
Rethinking Foreign Aid and Legitimacy
Does Foreign Aid Undermine Political Responsiveness? Evidence from Kenya
The economic effects of winning coalition size on the aid‐growth nexus
International Financial Institutions and the Promotion of Autocratic Resilience
Foreign Aid, Winning Coalitions, and Economic Growth
Development Politics and the Cold War
The Impact of China’s “Stadium Diplomacy” on Local Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ties That Bind
Chinese foreign aid and the erosion of media freedom
Choosing to Target
Aid for Vote? United Nations General Assembly Voting and American Aid Allocation
Foreign aid, FDI and the personalization of power in autocracies
Trust in government and American public opinion toward foreign aid
The Uses and Abuses of Foreign Aid
Fair-Weather Allies? Terrorism and the Allocation of US Foreign Aid
Responding to Catastrophe
Foreign Aid as a Counterterrorism Tool
Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 17? An Empirical Investigation of the Effectiveness of Aid Given to Boost Developing Countries’ Tax Revenue and Capacity
Aid Modalities Matter
Why Governments Have Their Troops Trained Abroad
Ignoring the Messenger? Limits of Populist Rhetoric on Public Support for Foreign Development Aid
Tertiarization, Industrial Adjustment, and the Domestic Politics of Foreign Aid1
Informally Governing International Development
Democracy and Multilateralism
Take the Money and Run
Who Controls Foreign Aid? Elite versus Public Perceptions of Donor Influence in Aid-Dependent Uganda
Democracy promotion and electoral quality
Does EU funding improve local state capacity? Evidence from Polish municipalities
On the effectiveness of democracy aid in post-civil war recipient countries
Is Bigger Always Better? How Targeting Aid Windfalls Affects Capture and Social Cohesion
Domestic Capacity and the Implementation Gap in Regional Trade Agreements
State Capacity and the Environmental Investment Gap in Authoritarian States
Improving Governance from the Outside In
How International Actors Help Enforce Domestic Deals
Effective Foreign Aid Following Civil War
How Does International Intervention Work to Secure Peace Settlements After Civil Conflicts
Foreign Aided
The British Academy Brian Barry Prize Essay
The Donor’s Dilemma
EU Development Aid towards Sub-Saharan Africa
Cash transfers' effect on government support
Aid as a Tool against Insurgency
Polyarchy
Aid, Policies, and Growth
African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979–1999
Lending Credibility
The Pattern of Aid Giving
The IMF and Economic Development
Aid, Policies, and Growth
A Panel Data Analysis of the Fungibility of Foreign Aid
Do Corrupt Governments Receive Less Foreign Aid?
Civil Liberties, Democracy, and the Performance of Government Projects
The curse of aid
Politics and the effectiveness of foreign aid
Aid, Growth and Democracy
The Anarchy of Numbers
The Lost Decades
Does Aid for Education Educate Children? Evidence from Panel Data
Ending Africa's Poverty Trap
Unintended Consequences
AID, Policy and Peace
Financing of global health
Electoral Rules and Corruption
Aid, Policies, and Growth
Who Gives Foreign Aid to Whom and Why?
Assessing aid
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
Are There Negative Returns to Aid
US politics and World Bank IDA-lending
Is the Allocation of Food Aid Free from Donor Interest Bias
Why Is Rent-Seeking So Costly to Growth
The Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society
Personal Rule
Corruption and Growth
The Logic of Political Survival
Rents, Competition, and Corruption
The causes of corruption
Aid and Growth
Of Rule and Revenue
Is Aid Oil? An Analysis Of Whether Africa Can Absorb More Aid
The Increasing Selectivity of Foreign Aid, 1984–2003
IMF and economic growth
Effective Aid
Aid, Government Expenditure, and Aggregate Welfare
When is foreign aid policy credible? Aid dependence and conditionality
What did structural adjustment adjust
Development aid and international politics
Competing models of international lending activity
Natural resources, rent seeking and welfare
Aid and growth regressions
Coercion, capital, and European states, 990–1990
Natural resources, aid, and democratization
When Does Aid Conditionality Work
Dissent on Development
Constitutions and Commitment
Foreign Aid and Market‐Liberalizing Reform
Problems of Industrialisation of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe
On the Empirics of Foreign Aid and Growth
Aid, Poverty Reduction and the ‘New Conditionality’
What Explains the Success or Failure of Structural Adjustment Programmes
Model Specification in Instrumental-Variables Regression
The Effects of U.S. Foreign Assistance on Democracy Building, 1990–2003
Choosing to Target
Clarifying the Foreign Aid Puzzle
Electoral Incentives for Political Corruption under Open-List Proportional Representation
The Perils of Unearned Income
Two Persistent Dimensions of Democracy
Does Foreign Aid Support Autocrats, Democrats, or Both
Does Foreign Aid Promote Democracy
Foreign Aid and Statehood in Africa
Oil, Nontax Revenue, and the Redistributional Foundations of Regime Stability
Funding Self-Sustaining Development
Conditioning the Effects of Aid
Foreign aid and political conditionality
Endogenous Oil Rents
Aid Effectiveness and the Politics of Personalism
To Invest or Insure
Democracy and Education Spending in Africa
The Personal Vote and the Efficacy of Education Spending
Does Foreign Aid Promote the Expansion of Government
How Foreign Aid Can Foster Democratization in Authoritarian Regimes
Electoral Systems, District Magnitude and Corruption
Electoral Connections
Foreign aid and rent-seeking
Instruments of development
Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid
Incentives to cultivate a personal vote
Presidentialism and clientelism in Africa's emerging party systems
Foreign Aid, Institutions, and Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa
Whose aid? Whose influence? China, emerging donors and the silent revolution in development assistance
The Political Economy of IMF Lending in Africa
China's engagement in Africa
| Unique citing works | 92 |
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| Citations per year | 5,75 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 92 |