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Measuring the impact of humanitarian aid (pdf 580 KB)

HPG Report 17, June 2004. By Charles-Antoine Hofmann. This report is concerned with how the impact of humanitarian aid can be measured, why this is increasingly being demanded and whether it is possible to do it better.

http://www.odi.org.uk/hpg/papers/HPGReport17.pdf

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Aid, Economic Reform and Public Sector Fiscal Behaviour in Developing Countries (PDF)

By Mark McGillivray, Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, University of Nottingham, (2002). This paper looks at interactions between foreign development aid, economic reform and public sector fiscal behaviour. It proposes a model of the public sector fiscal response to aid inflows, which allows for changes in structural relationships due to an exogenously imposed program of economic reform. This model is applied to 1960-97 time series data for the Philippines, which embarked on an IMF- and World Bank-funded liberalisation program in 1980. Estimates of structural and reduced-form equations paint a very dismal picture of the effectiveness of foreign aid in general and liberalisation in particular in the Philippines. Both bilateral and multilateral aid inflows, and the presence of an economic reform program, are associated with decreases in public fixed capital expenditure, decreases in taxation and other recurrent revenue and decreases in public sector saving. Multilateral aid also appears to be highly fungible.

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/economics/credit/research/papers/CP.02.11.pdf

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The Impact of Aid and External Debt on Growth and Investment (PDF)

By Henrik Hansen, Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, University of Nottingham, No. 02/26 (2002). Abstract: What happens if HIPC debt relief resources are not additional? We seek to answer this question by quantifying the impact of debt service payments and aid flows in crosscountry growth and investment regressions. Based on the regressions we assess the likely impact of debt relief with and without changes in the aid flows. The result is that one-for-one changes in debt service payments and official aid flows leaves the growth rate unchanged, i.e., there seems to be no growth without additionality. When we use a measure of effective aid developed by the World Bank staff we find that if decreases in debt service payments are accompanied by falling grant levels, there may even be a negative impact on growth.

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/economics/credit/research/papers/CP.02.26.pdf

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AusAID: Rapid Review of Project Quality [PDF -2791 KB]

In February and March 2002 AusAIDs Quality Assurance Group conducted a rapid review of project quality at entry. The review was a follow-up to the first quality-at-entry survey conducted in 1999.

http://www.ausaid.gov.au/publications/pdf/rapid_review_aug.pdf

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Development Indicators

Accurate, timely and unbiased information is crucial to sound public policy decisions. In particular statistical indicators are indispensable. It is possible to conduct an objective assessment of the extent to which goals have been achieved only if benchmark data and reliable indicators are available.

http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/indicators/indic2a.htm

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