Does Donor Selectivity in Aid Delivery Help the Poor

摘要: This paper explores the relationship between donor motivations and aid effectiveness, by analyzing decisions about how to deliver foreign development assistance. I argue that choices of delivery mechanisms are not random but a strategic response quality recipient state institutions. State institutions intermediate capacity generate condence in effective implementation among donors, encouraging them more directly through government. Weak institutions, on other hand, undermine use aid. It is these fragile recipients donors will seek out alternative partners allow forgo weak corrupt insulate from government intervention. Given range non-state partners, outcome-oriented choose most e ective channel (or mix thereof) for bypass, thereby reducing probability capture and, simultane- ously, increasing likelihood success poorly governed states. show systematically condition 2004-2008. also present evidence, after adjusting data selection ects statistical matching, bypass reduces poverty countries.