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| Aid Study by Alesina & Dollar Cited in "Monitor" Story on Aid Donors' Motivations | June 26, 2003 |
| In recent months, US President George W. Bush has directed greater attention towards outcomes in Africa, and policy analysts have increasingly focused on the effectiveness of development-assistance spending. Against this backdrop, a recent story in "The Christian Science Monitor" asks what motivates foreign-assistance spending: The news analysis turns to a well-known paper in the literature on development economics, which finds that donor states' political interests influence their aid decisions at least as much as recipient states' degree of need or resource efficiency. | |