Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Tables ix
5. Foreword xi
6. Acknowledgments xiii
7. Acronyms and Abbreviations xv
8. 1 Introduction 1
9. 2 Overview of Previous Studies 5
10. 3 Data and Descriptive Analysis 26
11. 4 Aid Allocation 42
12. 5 Aid and Economic Growth 57
13. 6 Conclusion 119
14. A Development Thinking and Foreign Aid 127
15. B Lists of Donors and Aid Recipients 131
16. C Definitions and Sources of Regression Variables 132
17. D Descriptive Summary Statistics 136
18. E General Characteristics of Political Rights Scores and Civil Liberties Scores 137
19. F Governance and Rent Extraction–Efficiency Trade-off in Aid Allocation 139
20. G Derivation of the Growth Equation Augmented with Human Capital 144
21. References 149
22. Index 159
23. About the Author 164