The Effectiveness of Aid to Development. Focus on the Aid-Growth literature.

• Introduction
  
• The objectives of aid to development
  
• 3. Aid effectiveness
  
• 4. The aid-growth relationship
  
• 5. The aid-growth literature
  
  • 5.1. The optimism of Hansen and Tarp (2000)
    
  • 5.2. The swinging pendulum of Clemens, Radelet and Bhavnani (2004)
    
• 6. New look at the aid-growth literature
  
  • 6.1. The first part of the literature
    
  • 6.2. Two turning points for a new aid-growth literature
    
    • 6.2.1. Boone (1996): the methodological turning point
      
    • 6.2.2. Burnside and Dollar (1997): the ideological turning point
      
• 7. The second part of the literature: reactions to Burnside and Dollar (1997)
  
  • 7.1. The indicator for «good» economic policy
    
  • 7.2. Risky interpretation and sensitivity to model specification
    
  • 7.3. Other conditioning variables than economic policy
    
  • 7.4. Sensitivity due to the data base
    
  • 7.5. Problem with the definition of aid
    
  • 7.6. The detrimental consequences of the selectivity principle
    
• 8. Contemporary consensus and controversy
  
• 9. Conclusion
  
• References