Development Aid

GIL S. EPSTEIN Professor of Economics, Bar-Ilan University, IsraelDAVID FIELDING Professor of Economics, University of Otago, New ZealandIRA N. GANG Professor of Economics, Rutgers University, USAALESSIA ISOPI Marie Curie Intra European Research Fellow, University of Nottingham, UKDIRK-JAN KOCH Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs; External PhD Candidate, Centre for International Development Issues, Radboud University, The NetherlandsTIM LLOYD Associate Professor, School of Economics and Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade (CREDIT), University of Nottingham, UKOLIVER MORRISSEY Professor of Development Economics and Director, Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade (CREDIT), University of Nottingham, UKMAXWELL OPAKU-AFARI Head, Special Studies Unit, Research Department, Bank of Ghana, GhanaROBERT PICCIOTTO Visiting Professor, Kings College, London, UKDAVID ROODMAN Research Fellow, Center for Global Development, Washington DC, USAHOWARD WHITE Executive Director, International Initiative for Impact Evaluation

• Foreword; A.Shorrocks Development Aid: Expectations, Effectiveness and Allocation; G.Mavrotas & M.McGillivray Decentralizing Aid with Interested Parties; G.Epstein &  I.Gang Blind Spots on the Map of Aid Allocations: Concentration and Complementarity of International NGO Aid; D.J.Koch On the Volatility and Unpredictability of Aid; D.Fielding &  G.Mavrotas Aid Project Proliferation and Absorptive Capacity; D.Roodman Aid Allocation and Aid Effectiveness: An Empirical Analysis; A.Isopi &  G.Mavrotas Fiscal Effects of Aid in Developing Countries: A Comparative Dynamic Analysis; M.Opoku-Afari, T.Lloyd, M.McGillivray &  O.Morrissey Development Effectiveness at the Country Level; R.Picciotto Evaluating Aid Impact; H.White