This paper empirically studies (i) forecasting emergency relief aid shipments and (ii) redesigning upstream humanitarian supply chains as means to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of disaster response. The United States Agency for International Development provided unique data about its emergency food aid shipments over a period of about eleven years. We find that while it is not possib...

As an emerging country, the progress of Bangladesh is highly promising. Foreign aid may be one key players fueling such advancement. The note attempt to examine effect foreign on economic growth Bangladesh. With a view fulfill our objective, study employs annual time series data during period 1971 2019. It has used some econometric tools i.e., Unit Root Tests and OLS Methods process collected d...

The dynamics of economies and infectious disease are inexorably linked: economic wellbeing influences health (sanitation, nutrition, treatment capacity, etc.) and health influences economic well-being (labor productivity lost to sickness and disease). Often societies are locked into “poverty traps” of poor health and poor economy. Here, using a simplified coupled diseaseeconomic model with endo...

Transaction costs” are commonly referred to in the recent literature on aid effectiveness. The shift to a new partnership aid paradigm (cf. the Paris Agenda) is grounded on the desire to render aid more effective, notably through reducing the high transaction costs generated by the project approach. Aid transaction costs, however, have neither been consistently defined nor measured. In this pap...

It is extremely difficult to empirically test the impact of aid on economic growth across countries. In this paper we adopt a disaggregate approach to study the link between aid and Dutch Disease using a natural experiment in China. Specifically, we examine whether post-disaster aid provided to a subsample of Chinese counties, devastated by an earthquake, in 2008 affects the sectoral compositio...

This paper examines the macroeconomic effects of foreign aid transfers in a small open recipient economy. The focus, however, is not on the impact of foreign aid per se but rather on aid’s influence conditional upon the different budgetary financing policies under the discretion of the recipient government. We compare the effects of an aid transfer tied to investment in a public good from a pur...

We study the importance of the local elite as a determinant of the e¤ectiveness of foreign aid in developing countries. An "extractive" elite will misuse aid ‡ows, an issue that is probably as old as foreign aid itself. We proxy for the existence of an "extractive" elite by using an historically determined variable: the percentage of European settlers in colonial times. Our econometric results ...

It is notoriously difficult to measure the causal impact of foreign aid on the economy. The “micro-macro paradox” (Paul Mosley 1986) renders it impossible to add up the effects of individual aid projects, since foreign aid is fungible. Thus, researchers are left to conduct cross-country analyses to capture the effect of aid on economic growth and other outcomes net of the recipient governments’...