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Poverty Efficient Aid Allocations - Collier/Dollar Revisited

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Jonathan Beynon
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Recent World Bank research has sparked a major debate about aid effectiveness and its implications for aid allocations. The main focus of attention has been the importance of good policy as a determinant of aid effectiveness and criterion for aid allocations. This paper briefly recaps the main arguments and evidence generated by Burnside/Collier/Dollar and their critics. It then focuses on the Collier/Dollar aid allocation models, subjecting them to a wider range of sensitivity tests to assess the robustness of their results. Finally, it analyses the relative efficiency of aid allocations over time and between donors.

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Paper provided by Economics and Statistics Analysis Unit (ESAU), Overseas Development Institute in its series Working Papers with number 2.

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Date of creation: Nov 2003
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Keywords: Collier Dollar aid allocation aid effectiveness donors

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