Targeting Aid to the Needy and Deserving: Nothing But Promises?

By reallocating aid to where it is needed most and where a productive use is most likely, donors could help alleviate poverty in developing countries. The rhetoric of donors suggests that this insight has increasingly shaped the allocation of aid. However, we find little evidence supporting the view that the targeting of aid has improved significantly. Most donors provide higher aid to relatively poor countries, but so far the fight against poverty has not resulted in a stronger focus on recipient countries with particularly high incidence of absolute poverty. Many donors failed to direct aid predominantly to where local conditions were conducive to a productive use of inflows. The response of donors to changing institutional and policy conditions in recipient countries turns out to be fairly weak. In particular, we reject the proposition that multilateral donor institutions provide better targeted aid than bilateral donors

Replication Data for: Social Signals and Participation in the Tunisian Revolution

This archive includes replication materials for Doherty and Schraeder's "Social Signals and Participation in the Tunisian Revolution." To conduct replication you should put the two data files and two DO files in a folder and nest an empty folder named "tables" in that folder. In the replication.do file, set the working directory to this "tables" folder. FILES: 2012_survey.dta: Data from 2012 Survey adbii_merged_data_file_english_final_0.dta: Data from second wave of Arab Barometer (also available here: http://www.arabbarometer.org/instruments-and-data-files) replication.do: Stata DO file to set directory and conduct analysis of 2012 Survey. This file calls ab_replication.do. ab_replication.do: Conduct recoding and analysis of Arab Barometer, Second Wave data