Aid Quality and Donor Rankings

World Development

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1907-1917

  Knack, Stephen ^a   Rogers, F Halsey ^a   Eubank, Nicholas ^b  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aid effectiveness; Aid quality; Aid selectivity; Donor harmonization; Donor proliferation; Official development assistance

Indexed keywords

AID FLOW; DEVELOPMENT AID; INTERNATIONAL AID; OECD;

EID: 80054019909     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.07.028     Document Type: Article

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