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Conditional aid effectiveness: A meta‐study
Author(s) -
Doucouliagos Hristos,
Paldam Martin
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.1582
Subject(s) - conditionality , aid effectiveness , index (typography) , meta analysis , econometrics , economics , term (time) , computer science , political science , politics , economic growth , law , developing country , medicine , physics , quantum mechanics , world wide web
One branch of the aid effectiveness literature (AEL) analyzes conditional models where aid effectiveness depends upon a conditioning variable z . The leading candidates for z are a good policy index and aid itself, so that the model has an aid squared term. In this paper, meta‐analysis techniques are used (i) to determine whether the AEL has established the said interaction terms, and (ii) to identify some of the determinants of the differences in results between studies. We find no support for conditionality with respect to policy, nor with respect to aid itself. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.