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Innovative Ways of Making Aid Effective in Ghana: Tied Aid Versus Direct Budgetary Support

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There has been significant amount of aid inflows to developing countries including Ghana, but these have been very volatile. Aid flows have been associated with low domestic resource mobilization and have reduced Ghana to a country heavily dependent on aid. The amount of official development assistance (ODA) inflows has fallen in recent years and has become unpredictable. It is general knowledge that aid has not yielded the desired benefit.

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  • Peter Quartey, 2005. "Innovative Ways of Making Aid Effective in Ghana: Tied Aid Versus Direct Budgetary Support," WIDER Working Paper Series RP2005-58, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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