This paper applies novel techniques to long-standing questions of aid effectiveness. It first replicates findings that donor finance is discernibly but weakly associated with sector outcomes in recipient countries. It then shows robustly that donors' own ratings of project success provide limited information on the contribution of those projects to development outcomes. By training a machine learning model on World Bank projects, the paper shows instead...
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2023/07/31
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Policy Research Working Paper
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WPS10532
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2023/07/31
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Minding the Gap : Aid Effectiveness, Project Ratings and Contextualization
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Goldemberg,Diana; Jordan,Luke Simon; Kenyon,Thomas.
Minding the Gap : Aid Effectiveness, Project Ratings and Contextualization (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 10532 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099434007312336860