Aid Volatility, Policy and Development

World Development

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2082-2102

  Hudson, John ^a   Mosley, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aid volatility; disasters; trust; upside and downside volatility

Indexed keywords

AID POLICY; INTERNATIONAL AID; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 53749089380     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2007.02.018     Document Type: Article

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