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This paper presents a two-step approach of assessing whether major donors of foreign aid have met recent demands for less proliferated and better coordinated aid efforts. First, the authors calculate Theil indices revealing the concentration of each donor's aid on recipient countries and specific aid sectors. Second, they map overlaps of aid from different donors and over time to analyze the degree of coordination. Their results point to a wide and persistent gap between the rhetoric of political declarations and the donors' actual aid allocation during the period 1995-2006.