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Trade promotes economic growth, alleviates poverty and helps countries reach their development goals. However … the role of trade in development, but also helped secure increased resources."Trade for Growth and Poverty Reduction: How … Aid for Trade Can Help" explains how Aid for Trade can foster economic growth and reduce poverty, and why it is an …
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variable (IAV) to establish the effects of foreign aid on economic growth or the reduction of poverty. The common assumption in …
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Aid in 2015 is trapped in its own logic of paternalism, bureaucracy, over-reporting, top-down decision making and lack of accountability, thereby further excluding and disenfranchising the poor. We argue in this essay that this failure is not limited to official development assistance, but also...
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This paper discusses AfT's role in reducing poverty. Using cross-country data for 52 countries during 2000-2011, it … assesses whether AfT has had a measurable direct effect on poverty in Africa. The paper finds compelling evidence that AfT has … directly impacted on poverty, particularly in LDCs and landlocked countries by improving their productive capacities and trade …
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This paper criticises the World Bank as overly optimistic with respect to its ability to fine-tune development aid and to focus it on countries with 'good' policies rather than on countries with 'poor' policies in order to raise its effectiveness. It is shown that recipient regions showed very...
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