Does Foreign Aid Reduce Poverty? : Empirical Evidence from Nongovernmental and Bilateral Aid /

This paper assesses the effectiveness of foreign aid in reducing poverty through its impact on human development indicators. We use a dataset of both bilateral aid and NGO aid flows. Our results show that NGO aid reduces infant mortality and does so more effectively than official bilateral aid. The...

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Autor principal: Yontcheva, Boriana
Outros Autores: Masud, Nadia
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2005.
Colecção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2005/100
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF