Foreign aid heterogeneity: Issues and agenda

Review of World Economics

Volumn 143, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 585-595

  Mavrotas, George ^a,c   Nunnenkamp, Peter ^b  

^a World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER)

^b KIEL INSTITUTE FOR THE WORLD ECONOMY   (Germany)

^c UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aid heterogeneity; Foreign aid

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349061785     PISSN: 16102878     EISSN: 16102886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10290-007-0123-y     Document Type: Article

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