Foreign aid and business bottlenecks : a study of aid effectiveness (English)

This paper proposes a new framework to analyze aid effectiveness. Using World Bank firm survey data and OECD aid flow data, the authors analyze whether aid targets areas that firms in developing countries have identified as obstacles for their growth and whether aid actually improves firms' perceptions of those areas. The analysis finds that aid does target the areas that firms have identified as obstacles; aid funding trade related projects is particularly...

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Ferro,Esteban;

Wilson,John S.;
Document Date
2011/01/01
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS5546
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
World,
Region
Other,
Disclosure Date
2011/01/01
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Foreign aid and business bottlenecks : a study of aid effectiveness
Keywords
aid flow

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Ferro,Esteban; Wilson,John S..

Foreign aid and business bottlenecks : a study of aid effectiveness (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5546 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/126071468152724226

Foreign aid and business bottlenecks : a study of aid effectiveness (English)

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