Contents: 1. Introduction to the handbook of aid and development / Raj M. Desai, Shantayanan Devarajan and Jennifer L. Tobin
Part I. Debates and challenges
2. Development happened. did aid help? / Lant Pritchett
3. Why is aid given? / Steven Radelet
4. Trends and challenges in aid allocation / Sarah Blodgett Bermeo
5. Why is aid received? / Samuel Mwita Wangwe
6. Hysteresis, aid, and governance: Theories and empirics from Africa / Célestin Monga and Bouba Housseini
7. The political economy of aid in African states / Ken Ochieng' Opalo
8. Curbing corruption in aid / Elizabeth Dávid-Barrett and Riccardo D'Emidio
9. The paradox of aid and donor self-interest / William Easterly
10. Aid targeting / Ryan C. Briggs
11. Donor motives and aid effectiveness / Christopher Kilby
12. Recipient governments and aid flows / Matthew S. Winters
13. Political outcomes of aid / Cesi Cruz, Julien Labonne and Ashley Wright
14. Aid and fragile states / Anke Hoeffler and Patricia Justino
Part II. The changing aid and development landscape
15. China's overseas development program / Axel Dreher and Bradley C. Parks
16. Private aid / Una Osili and Cathie Carrigan
17. Citizen aid / Allison Schnable
18. Managing aid personnel / Gus Greenstein and Dan Honig
19. Aid and civil society organizations / Duncan Green and Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah
20. Vertical funds / Homi Kharas and John W. McArthur
21. Blended finance / Emma Mawdsley and Sarah Hughes-McLure
22. Aid and inequality / Salome Ecker and Andy Sumner
23. Climate finance and the multilateral development banks / Ayse Kaya
24. The world bank and global public goods / Scott Morris
25. On race, equity and aid / Kathryn Nwajiaku-Dahou and Carmen Leon-Himmelstine.