The ‘aid conditionality’ hypothesis as documented in the literature suggests that aid is effective augmenting growth only presence of a sound policy environment. This was so influential its recommendation, to provide conditional upon recipient domestic policies, currently dominant ODA allocation criterion. However non-economic dimensions development (political and institutional) are increasingl...

The paper discusses the expanding scope of the aid-for-trade agenda, the amount of ODA donors are providing in support of trade, the prospects for additional resources, the problems related to identifying market failures, the principles for aid effectiveness, and the main areas for improving the effectiveness of aid-for-trade. It also elaborates a proposal to create aid-for-trade partnerships b...

We conduct a discrete choice experiment (DCE) to determine how important aid effectiveness is to people relative to other criteria for choosing countries to support with bilateral foreign aid. We find that aid effectiveness is important, on a par with recipient-country need as proxied by the level of hunger and malnutrition. Both criteria are more important than others.

Although most clinical tests focus on how much a particular hearing aid improves speech audibility under controlled conditions, it is unclear how these measures relate to hearing aid effectiveness, or the benefit perceived by the patient under everyday conditions. In this study, the relationship between audibility and hearing aid effectiveness was examined in a cohort of patients who obtained h...