In the efficient allocation of aid, aid is targeted disproportionately to countries with severe poverty and adequate … policies. For a given level of poverty, aid tapers in with policy reform. In the actual allocation of aid, aid tapers out with … reform. - Aid now lifts about 30 million people a year out of absolute poverty. With a poverty-efficient allocation, the same …

In the efficient allocation of aid, aid is targeted disproportionately to countries with severe poverty and adequate … policies. For a given level of poverty, aid tapers in with policy reform. In the actual allocation of aid, aid tapers out with … reform. Aid now lifts about 30 million people a year out of absolute poverty. With a poverty-efficient allocation, the same …

July 2000 - Poverty in the developing world will decline by roughly half by 2015 if current growth trends and policies … persist. But a disproportionate share of poverty reduction will occur in East and South Asia, poverty will decline only … picture? More effective development aid could greatly improve poverty reduction in the areas where poverty reduction is …