Do donors target aid in line with the millennium development goals? A sector perspective of aid allocation

Review of World Economics

Volumn 143, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 596-630

  Thiele, Rainer ^a   Nunnenkamp, Peter ^a,b   Dreher, Axel ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b KIEL INSTITUTE FOR THE WORLD ECONOMY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aid allocation; Millennium development goals; Sector specific aid

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349060096     PISSN: 16102878     EISSN: 16102886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10290-007-0124-x     Document Type: Article

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