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Why Aid Is Not Dead. How To Improve Its Effectiveness

Section 1 starts from the recent provocative essay by Dambisa Moyo “Dead Aid” to discuss several issues that hinge upon aid effectiveness, its measurement and complex causations, explaining why so many opposite conclusions have been drawn from various attempts to find a positive causal relation between aid and aggregate growth. Section 2 dwells on various policy implications for donor and recipient countries’ governments, ranging from budget support and related conditionalities to untying of aid, public-private partnerships, aid-for-trade schemes. Section 3 concludes with some recommendations and proposals to improve aid effectiveness.… Continua la lettura