Aid effectiveness and selectivity: Integrating multiple objectives into aid allocations

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This paper surveys recent research on aid and growth. It also provides an overview of research on inter-recipient aid allocation. The overall focus of the paper is on the relevance of these issues for poverty-efficient aid, defined as a pattern of inter-recipient aid allocation which maximises poverty reduction. It identifies a range of povertyreducing criteria on which aid allocation or selectivity might be based, calling for a broader selectivity framework. The paper argues that this framework should be built on a recognition that the effectiveness of aid in increasing growth, and by implication in reducing poverty, is contingent on a range of factors in addition to the quality of recipient country policy regimes. These factors include political stability, democracy, post conflict reconstruction, and economic vulnerability.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: WIDER Discussion Paper ; No. 2003/71

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Foreign Aid ; Policy Objectives; Policy Designs and Consistency; Policy Coordination ; General Welfare; Well-Being ; Measurement and Analysis of Poverty ; International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations ; National Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
• Subject: aid ; growth ; policy ; selectivity ; poverty reduction ; post-conflict ; democracy ; political stability ; economic vulnerability ; Entwicklungshilfe ; Armutspolitik ; Wirtschaftswachstum

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): McGillivray, Mark
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (where): Helsinki
• (when): 2003

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/52830
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET