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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yontcheva, Boriana
Other Authors: Masud, Nadia
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 2005
Series:IMF Working Papers
Subjects:
Nonprofit Institutions
International Relief
Public Finance & Taxation
National Government Expenditures And Health
Health Care Spending
Nongovernmental Organizations
National Government Expenditures And Education
Exports And Imports
Education Spending
International Economics
Economic Assistance
Ngos
Foreign Aid
Non-governmental Organizations
Expenditures, Public
Civil Service & Public Sector
Social Entrepreneurship
Aid Flows
Public Finance
Ngos (non-governmental Organizations)
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People's Republic Of China
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Collection: International Monetary Fund - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary: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 impact on illiteracy is less significant. We also test whether foreign aid reduces government efforts in achieving developmental goals and find mixed evidence of a substitution effect
Physical Description:31 pages
ISBN:9781451861198

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