Environment and foreign aid
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Foreign Aid and the Environment: Still A Curse?
Foreign aid has become a very important source of government revenue for many countries in the world. The academia and policy communities are interested in whether foreign aid has done what it is supposed to do. The aid literature has paid special attention to foreign aid’s effects, if any, on poverty reduction, economic growth, human capital accumulation, to name but a few. One often overlooke...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/326539a0