EU aid coordination and aid effectiveness

This paper is intended to provide a framework for the eudaico network to undertake a series of comparative country studies of aid EU coordination within the context of the Paris Declaration on Aid effectiveness. It begins with a review of the relevant economic concepts that may provide a theoretical framework and then proceeds to outline the evolution of EU aid administration in general and then specifically in relation to the aid effectiveness agenda. Finally it considers the various assessments of EU performance in this area and concludes with a review of some quantitative assessments of the potential gains to be realised from the adoption of the Paris Agenda proposals on Aid Effectiveness