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Adapting Aid Allocation Criteria to Development Goals

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  • Patrick Guillaumont

    (CERDI - Centre d'études et de recherches sur le developpement international - CNRS - Université d'Auvergne - Clermont-Ferrand I)

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This paper analyzes aid allocation from a normative point of view. It attempts to design aid allocation criteria adapted to development goals and combining the principles of effectiveness and equity in a transparent and integrated framework. The common view about aid selectivity, which essentially refers to the quality of governance and policy indicators, is challenged for several reasons, in particular the weakness of the relationship between these indicators and aid effectiveness and the risk of countries facing exogeneous difficulties being left behind. Consistent with the lessons of the literature on aid effectiveness, new criteria for aid allocation are proposed, in particular that of structural vulnerability which has been shown to increase the marginal effectiveness of aid, because aid dampens its negative effects. Moreover, equity principles in aid allocation involve promoting equal opportunities (for economic growth and to reduce poverty), which means giving more aid to countries facing more severe structural handicaps. Thus a rational basis is given for allocating more aid to the LDCs (least developed countries), designated as low income countries suffering the most from structural handicaps. Using the Economic Vulnerability Index (EVI) set up for the identification of LDCs also leads to giving special attention to small and vulnerable countries which are not LDCs, and to fragile states as well.

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  • F35 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Foreign Aid
  • O19 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations

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Cited by:

  1. Jan Willem GUNNING, 2008. "Aid Effectiveness: Can It Be Improved?," Working Papers P02, FERDI.
  2. Patrick GUILLAUMONT & Sylviane GUILLAUMONT JEANNENEY, 2009. "Accounting for Vulnerability of African Countries in Performance Based Aid Allocation," Working Papers P08, FERDI.
  3. Alan Gelb, 2010. "How Can Donors Create Incentives for Results and Flexibility for Fragile States? A Proposal for IDA," Working Papers id:3233, eSocialSciences.
  4. Ha Hoang, 2014. "Aid darling and the European Union’s aid allocation policy: the case of Vietnam," Asia Europe Journal, Springer, vol. 12(3), pages 301-324, September.

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