The notion of ‘ownership’ has occupied a central place in measuring the effectiveness North–South cooperation. How is it represented South–South cooperation (SSC) and how does affect SSC? There no clear answer existing literature. In this article, we describe representation SSC explain affected process impact projects using case studies three uniformly designed Chinese agricultural aid Mozambiq...

In accounting for the rather gloomy trend of the aid effectiveness literature over the last few years, one explanatory strand has been fiscal, suggesting in particular that aid flows in weak states have tended to erode the taxbase and the structure of institutions. We pursue this idea, tracing the link from politics to domestic tax effort and then using the influence of this on expenditure to e...

The authors estimate the responsiveness of aid to recipient countries’ economic and physical needs, civil/political rights, and government effectiveness. They look exclusively at the postCold War era and use fixed effects to control for the political, strategic, and other considerations of donors. They find that aid and per capita income have been negatively related, while aid has been positive...

• Brazil’s aid to developing countries is expanding, with the country set to overtake smaller DAC donors and even to catch China and India. • Lessons from other emerging donors and from trilateral cooperation could help Brazil to address the political, institutional and technical constraints to its aid programme. • The Brazil example shows the need for evidence on the quality, impact and value-...

There is a widespread view that political criteria have received less emphasis in aid allocation since the end of the cold war, with a greater share of aid subsequently being based on developmental criteria. An observed increase in aid effectiveness is attributed to this shift. A reasonably large literature on aid allocation supports this view: a number of influential, widely cited studies conc...

This paper takes a fresh look at three issues in the aid effectiveness debate. First, we assess the theoretical case for foreign aid. Using an endogenous growth version of the standard overlapping generations model, we show that aid can be an effective policy tool in spurring growth in poor countries. This model also furnishes a theoretical foundation for the approach taken in many empirical st...

BACKGROUND This study examines the potential of aid effectiveness to positively influence human resources for health in developing countries, based on research carried out in the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR). Efforts to make aid more effective--as articulated in the 2005 Paris Declaration and recently reiterated in the 2008 Accra Agenda for Action--are becoming an increasingly pro...