Aid Allocation

• Published in: Foreign Aid Allocation, Governance, and Economic Growth pp. 42 - 56
• Main Author: Akramov, Kamiljon T
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United States University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc 22.05.2012; University of Pennsylvania Press
• Subjects: Applied economics; Applied mathematics; Applied statistics; Bilateralism; Countries; Demographic fluctuations; Demography; Developed countries; Development economics; Donor eligibility; Donor selection; Economic aid; Economic disciplines; Economic modeling; Economic models; Economic policy; Economics; Estimation methods; Foreign aid; Foreign policy; Governance; Government; Health care industry; Health care services; Health sciences; Human geography; Inferential statistics; Life expectancy; Mathematics; Political geography; Political science; Population characteristics; Population estimates; Population size; Population studies; Public administration; Public policy; Social sciences; Statistical estimation; Statistics; Tissue donation
• ISBN: 0812244656; 9780812244656
• DOI: 10.9783/9780812207736.42

Aggregate patterns, such as those shown in Przeworski et al. (2000), suggest that the relationship between the level of economic development and the democratic quality of governance is strong and robust. Therefore, with few exceptions, one can plausibly predict the quality of governance in a given country just by looking at the level of its per capita income or vice versa. In this context, the typology of countries based on the quality of governance developed in the previous chapter can be considered as a proxy for the level of economic development. The important question, however, has to do with the