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Reducing Poverty By Aid Reallocation: Uncertainties And Alternative Assumptions

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  • Patrick GUILLAUMONT

    (Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International(CERDI))

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Two recent World Bank documents argue that the effects of aid on growth depend on the recipient country policy (Burnside and Dollar) and that it is possible to allocate aid in order to maximize poverty reduction (Collier and Dollar). This study presents a critical examination of the assumption on which the two documents rely and suggest new assumption and orientations for research. It successively focuses on the aid-growth relationship, supposing that aid effectiveness depends on vulnerability as well as on policy, and on the poverty minimisation exercise, proposing to test directly the impact of aid on poverty reduction.

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  • Patrick GUILLAUMONT, 1999. "Reducing Poverty By Aid Reallocation: Uncertainties And Alternative Assumptions," Working Papers 199928, CERDI.
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    1. Patrick GUILLAUMONT, 1999. "On The Economic Vulnerability Of Low Income Countries révisé, cf 2000.16," Working Papers 199916, CERDI.
    2. Patrick GUILLAUMONT, 2000. "On the Economic Vulnerability of Low Income Countries," Working Papers 200016, CERDI.

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