Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/107699 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 1991
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
Acknowledging that aid proliferation and a lack of coordination impair aid effectiveness, donors have repeatedly promised to specialize and better coordinate their aid activities, most notably in the Paris Declaration of 2005. We exploit geocoded aid data from Malawi to assess whether the country's bilateral and multilateral donors have acted accordingly at the district and sector level. We do not find compelling evidence for increased aid specialization after the Paris Declaration, and the regional division of labor among donors may even have deteriorated. Our within-country evidence thus broadly corroborates what previous studies found at the national level of recipient countries.
Subjects: 
foreign aid
aid proliferation
donor coordination
Malawi
JEL: 
F35
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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