Author Name | ARIMOTO Yutaka (JSPS Research Fellow / the University of Tokyo) /KONO Hisaki (Institute of Developing Economies, Japan) |
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Creation Date/NO. | August 2007 07-E-051 |
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Abstract
Recent empirical studies reveal that effectiveness of aid on growth is ambiguous. This paper considers aid proliferation - excess aid investment relative to recurrent cost - as a potential cause that undermines aid effectiveness, because aid projects can only produce sustainable benefits when sufficient recurrent costs are disbursed. We consider the donor's budget support as a device to supplement the shortage of the recipient's recurrent cost and to alleviate the misallocation of inputs. However, when donors have self-interested preferences over the success of their own projects to those conducted by others, they provide insufficient budget support relative to aid which results in aid proliferation. Moreover, aid proliferation is shown to be worsened by the presence of more donors.
Published: Yutaka Arimoto and Hisaki Kono, 2008. "Foreign Aid and Recurrent Cost: Donor Competition, Aid Proliferation and Budget Support," Review of Development Economics, Vol. 13(2), pp. 276-287.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9361.2008.00486.x/abstract