Evaluation of Donor Engagement in Conflict-Affected and Fragile States

Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, University of Frankfurt (Main), language: English, abstract: In the second half of the last century, a brave idea of providing aid to developing countries not only because of humanitarian reasons, but also because of a global economic interdependency was born. International organizations shared this view with a great enthusiasm and significantly increased their engagement in low-income countries believing that these nations need to and can be helped. This movement stirred an interest of the academia and, as a result, research on the outcomes of international donors' engagement in recipient countries started.The main aim of this thesis is to analyze a broad spectrum of literature on aid effectiveness in developing countries and to summarize the main findings concerning an impact of state fragility and conflict on the efficiency of donor engagement. However, the main focus of this research lies in an own empirical analysis of some well-established hypotheses, as well as in a statistical testing of the outcomes obtained by other authors in a relevant field of study.The effectiveness of foreign aid...