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The Macroeconomics of Scaling Up Aid; The Gleneagles Initiative for Benin

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  • Joannes Mongardini
  • Issouf Samaké

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This paper assesses the macroeconomic implications of scaling up aid for Benin in line with the Gleneagles commitment to double aid to poor countries over the next three years to reach $85 per capita by 2010 and keep it at that level thereafter. The analysis suggests that the additional aid inflows can be accommodated under Fund-supported programs without major disruptions to macroeconomic stability, provided the inflows are highly concessional and used effectively. There are, however, significant risks that the impact on growth and poverty reduction of the additional aid inflows could fall short of expectations, given Benin's limited absorptive and administrative capacity.

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Paper provided by International Monetary Fund in its series IMF Working Papers with number 09/115.

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Date of creation: 01 May 2009
Handle: RePEc:imf:imfwpa:09/115
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Keywords: Absorptive capacity; Aid flows; Aid; Benin; Dutch disease; Domestic investment; Debt sustainability; Concessional aid; Financial risk; Financial assistance; Millennium Development Goals; Infrastructure; Fiscal sustainability; Scaling Up; monetary fund; central bank; inflation; foreign aid;

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