What Determines the Size of Aid Projects?

World Development

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1981-1994

  Kilby, Christopher ^a  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aid fragmentation; AidData; Foreign aid

Indexed keywords

AID DEPENDENCY; AID FLOW; AID REFORM; DEVELOPING WORLD; INTERNATIONAL AID;

EID: 80054015705     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.07.023     Document Type: Article

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