What Is Effective Aid? How Would Donors Allocate It?

What Is Effective Aid? How Would Donors Allocate It?

There are significant weaknesses in some of the traditional justifications for assuming that aid will foster development. This paper looks at what the cross-national aid effectiveness literature suggests about effective aid, first in terms of promoting income growth and then for promoting other goal...

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Main Author: Kenny, Charles
Format: Journal Article
Language:EN
Published: 2012
Subjects:
Foreign Aid F350
International Linkages to Development
Role of International Organizations O190
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4613
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spelling okr-10986-46132021-04-23T14:02:18Z What Is Effective Aid? How Would Donors Allocate It? Kenny, Charles Foreign Aid F350 International Linkages to Development Role of International Organizations O190 There are significant weaknesses in some of the traditional justifications for assuming that aid will foster development. This paper looks at what the cross-national aid effectiveness literature suggests about effective aid, first in terms of promoting income growth and then for promoting other goals. This review forms the basis for a discussion of recommendations to improve aid effectiveness and a discussion of effective aid allocation. Given the multiple potential objectives for aid, there is no one right answer. However, it appears that there are a number of reforms to aid practices and distribution that might help to deliver a more significant return to aid resources. 2012-03-30T07:28:49Z 2012-03-30T07:28:49Z 2008 Journal Article European Journal of Development Research 09578811 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4613 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article
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International Linkages to Development
Role of International Organizations O190
spellingShingle Foreign Aid F350
International Linkages to Development
Role of International Organizations O190
Kenny, Charles
What Is Effective Aid? How Would Donors Allocate It?
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description There are significant weaknesses in some of the traditional justifications for assuming that aid will foster development. This paper looks at what the cross-national aid effectiveness literature suggests about effective aid, first in terms of promoting income growth and then for promoting other goals. This review forms the basis for a discussion of recommendations to improve aid effectiveness and a discussion of effective aid allocation. Given the multiple potential objectives for aid, there is no one right answer. However, it appears that there are a number of reforms to aid practices and distribution that might help to deliver a more significant return to aid resources.
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author Kenny, Charles
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title What Is Effective Aid? How Would Donors Allocate It?
title_short What Is Effective Aid? How Would Donors Allocate It?
title_full What Is Effective Aid? How Would Donors Allocate It?
title_fullStr What Is Effective Aid? How Would Donors Allocate It?
title_full_unstemmed What Is Effective Aid? How Would Donors Allocate It?
title_sort what is effective aid? how would donors allocate it?
publishDate 2012
url http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4613
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