10.3886/ICPSR21302.v1 Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu Wall, Howard J. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research 2007 civil rights economic aid economic conditions government agencies government performance Gross Domestic Product income infant mortality international assistance political rights poverty World Bank 2007-11-08 2007-11-08 21302 1 The authors estimate the responsiveness of aid to recipient countries' economic and physical needs, civil/political rights, and government effectiveness. They look exclusively at the post-Cold War era and use fixed effects to control for the political, strategic, and other considerations of donors. They find that aid and per capita income have been negatively related, while aid has been positively related to infant mortality, rights, and government effectiveness.