The Money Trail: Ranking Donor Transparency in Foreign Aid

World Development

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1918-1929

  Ghosh, Anirban ^a   Kharas, Homi ^a  

^a BROOKINGS INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Aid effectiveness; Aid transparency; DAC; Foreign aid; IATI; ODA; Official development assistance; QuODA; Transparency

Indexed keywords

AID FLOW; DEVELOPMENT AID; INTERNATIONAL AID;

AUSTRALIA; KOREA;

EID: 80054044755     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.07.026     Document Type: Article

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