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Rethinking the Policy Objectives of Development Aid: From Economic Growth to Conflict Prevention

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  • Sakiko Fukuda-Parr

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The current consensus objective of development aid in the international community is to reduce poverty in general and to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in particular. In addition, the dominant view identifies economic growth as the principal means to this end. But the policy objective of aid can be defined in many ways, and has in fact varied over time with shifting priorities within the international community about the ultimate ends of development and the means for advancing those ends.

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  • Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, 2007. "Rethinking the Policy Objectives of Development Aid: From Economic Growth to Conflict Prevention," WIDER Working Paper Series RP2007-32, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    • Handle: RePEc:unu:wpaper:rp2007-32
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    1. Ferrannini, Andrea & Barbieri, Elisa & Biggeri, Mario & Di Tommaso, Marco R., 2021. "Industrial policy for sustainable human development in the post-Covid19 era," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 137(C).
    2. Magdalena Proczek & Ewa Osuch-Rak, 2021. "The Effectiveness of Development Aid – EU as a Leader?," European Research Studies Journal, European Research Studies Journal, vol. 0(Special 4), pages 583-600.
    3. Amirhossein Najafi & Anwar Aridi & Hossein Askari, 2010. "Do Better Political Relations with the USA Improve A Country's Economic Outlook?," PSL Quarterly Review, Economia civile, vol. 63(255), pages 379-397.

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