The President (Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo) of the known “bellwether on the continent of Africa – Ghana in December … France do for us” to that “What we can do for/and by ourselves”. This statement resonated across the Sub-Saharan Africa … these have affected the continent of Africa. Clearly, the effects have been that of “Dutch disease” in nature developmental …

1. Introduction: Foreign Aid and Poverty in Africa -- 2. The Postcolonial African State Revisited -- 3. Africa in the … Global Community -- 4. The Structure of Foreign Aid to Africa since the 1960s -- 5. Foreign Aid: How far and how well? -- 6 …. Targeting the Fundamentals: Towards a new form of development assistance to Africa -- 7. Development Assistance Redesigned -- 8 …

remains too slow to reach targets by 2015, despite significant progress in the late 1990s. The MDG Africa Steering Group … national development plans would be impacted by scaled up development aid to Africa. This joint publication of the IMF and the …

This paper surveys the economic literature on the scaling-up of aid to Africa. It provides a checklist of issues that …