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How can 'aid exit' be successfully managed?

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A key part of the donor-recipient aid relationship is managing ‘aid exit’. This is to ensure the continuing sustainability of development programmes and a positive effect on the ‘post-aid’ relationship. In what the authors claim to be the first study of its kind, this paper, offers a detailed analysis of 14 ‘aid exits’.

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