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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Автор: Yontcheva, Boriana
Інші автори: Masud, Nadia
Формат: Журнал
Мова:English
Опубліковано: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2005.
Серія:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2005/100
Онлайн доступ:Full text available on IMF