ON THE LINK BETWEEN FOREIGN AID AND POVERTY REDUCTION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Foreign Aid Fungibility, Growth, and Poverty Reduction

This paper tries to assess to which extent fungibility in sectoral foreign development assistance is something donors should be concerned about. This is done in three steps. First, country specific estimates of the degree of fungibility are obtained. These are then incorporated in a well established empirical aid-growth equation. Third, arguing that the aid-growth relation may not be the releva...

Crowding out Effect of Foreign Aid in Selected Developing Countries: Panel Data Evidence

Productivity Growth and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries

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Growth , Inequality , and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries : Recent Global

No institution of affiliation is responsible for the views expressed herein. Abstract The study presents recent global evidence on the transformation of economic growth to poverty reduction in developing countries, with emphasis on the role of income inequality. The focus is on the period since the early-mid-1990s when growth in these countries as a group has been relatively strong, surpassing ...

Prospects for Growth and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries

T he effects of the crises of 1997–99, from East Asia to Russia and Brazil, persist in many aspects. In most developing countries growth remains weak and well below precrisis trends. Social dislocations are severe, and have increased not only in Asia but also in other affected countries. Progress in poverty reduction has stalled in the developing world at the end of the 1990s, and the number of...