responsiveness of employment to growth. The role of development aid in this context is problematic. Across Africa more aid went to … countries with a low employment intensity of growth. The paper proposes a new approach to aid and poverty in Africa, one that …Growth and poverty reduction in Africa are weakly linked. This paper argues that the reason is that Africa has failed …

This paper argues that official development assistance (foreign aid) is partly responsible for the lack of structural … change in Africa. Africa's development partners have devoted too few resources and too little attention to two critical … regulatory reforms. A new aid strategy, one that catalyses private investment in high value added sectors, is needed. Support for …

, especially in Africa, the role of foreign aid in the future should be distinctly different. While aid will be required to … continue to fill the 'savings gap' in some small countries and land-locked countries, in most other countries aid can play a … the other 'BRIC', sovereign wealth funds and infrastructure funds. There are already examples of aid playing such a …

recipient governments - about Chinese development finance activities in Africa that can be updated and improved through crowd … Africa. Ground-truthing generally revealed close agreement between open-source data and answers to protocol questions from …

African countries. Thus, any policy initiative targeted towards poverty reduction in Africa should consider the agricultural ….5 per cent, and humanitarian 11.9 per cent. Using secondary data and country-case studies from Africa, the study … investigates why aid to agriculture has been low, and how the share of ODA to agriculture can be improved. …

and Southern Africa. Total aid to these countries' environmental sectors for the 2000s decade is about US$10.17 billion …This study seeks to understand what aid flows have been doing to the environment in eight countries in Eastern, Western … and bilateral aid has been on the rise. There seems to have been a structural change in some countries where donors have …

Aid providers frequently link supporting small firms to job creation. Small firms create about half of new jobs in … Africa, but they also have higher failure rates. Ignoring firm exit exaggerates net employment growth. Using panel data for … persistently lower. To create more good jobs aid should target the constraints to the growth of firms of all sizes. Improving the …

Japan has an impressive history when it comes to aid, industrial policy, and infrastructure development, both as a … aid is questioned, few actors can offer more useful experience. Restoring structural transformation as a donor priority …, and recognizing the critical role it played in the development of Japan, is a vital step towards making the real gains aid …

This paper discusses past and current social policy strategies in the international aid architecture. From the 1990s …, aid strategy and policy shifted to put a stronger emphasis on human development. This accelerated with the Millennium … also assesses some of the concerns associated with the 'Paris-style' aid modalities, and discusses major challenges for the …