Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/53041 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Discussion Paper No. 2005/06
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
Issues related to the volatility of aid flows are now becoming crucial in view of their relevance to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. The paper examines aid volatility using data for 66 aid recipients over the period 1973-2002. We improve upon earlier work in this important area by disaggregating total aid inflows into sector and programme aid. In this way we avoid focussing on a single aggregate, unlike most previous studies on aid volatility. We also adopt a different methodology to capture aid volatility. The institutional quality of the aid recipient affects the stability of sector aid but not that of programme assistance. Moreover, more open economies, which tend to be smaller and richer, ceteris paribus, are associated with more volatile sector aid flows.
Subjects: 
aid volatility
aid heterogeneity
project aid
programme assistance
MDGs
JEL: 
F35
O19
ISBN: 
9291906859
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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