Poverty focused aid
- How can aid be free from corruption?
- For aid to be effective it must, in its first instance, be delivered to its intended recipients. Combating corruption, therefore, should be the first action of any aid transaction - in order to ensure development can be effected. This paper considers the pertinent issues in the aid and corruption debate - specifically focusing on abuses that can arise in development assistance targeted at poverty reduction - and highlights a number of key measures which the authors feel will ensure greater transparency and accountability.
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- Mind the gap: from evidence to policy impact - conference proceedings
- ( International Initiative for Impact Evaluation , 2011)
- The 3ie conference, Mind the Gap: From Evidence to Policy Impact, brought to centre stage the need to address this “tension between learning and doing” as Ruth Levine (Hewlett Foundation) ...
- 2010: assessing aid and development
- ( A. Wilks / IBON International , 2010)
- Millions of people worldwide have insufficient food to eat, are vulnerable to disease and disaster, and receive minimal income. However, rich countries have already made a series of pledges on poverty...
- Arguing the case for improved quality and quantity of aid
- ( J. Burnley / Oxfam , 2010)
- Recent critics of aid programmes have argued that aid is in fact the key cause of economic dependency, lack of growth, corruption, and even laziness amongst people living in poverty. The persistence o...
- Bridging the gap between an educated workforce and high unemployment in Jordan
- ( T.H. Kanaan;M.D. Hanania / Jordan Center for Public Policy Research and Dialogue , 2009)
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The economic volatility evident in Jordan has been driven largely by Jordan’s dependence on workers’ remittances and foreign aid. Furthermore, conflict in the region has fundamentally c...
- Challenging how donors evaluate development success
- ( S. Patel;S. Bartlett / Development in Practice , 2009)
- This article challenges the terms on which donor agencies evaluate development success, drawing on a particular case to make its point. It describes the resettlement of 60,000 people squatting along t...
How can development assistance better contribute to poverty reduction? Some exploratory ideas
- ( O. Barder / Center for Global Development, USA , 2009)
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In recent years, the development community has emphasised poverty reduction – defined as increases in economic growth - as the main objective of foreign assistance. In par...
- Are current levels of aid adequate to eradicate world poverty? Evidence from 174 countries
- ( S. Subramanian / Economic and Political Weekly, India , 2008)
- Although aid effectiveness issues tend to top the development agenda these days, analysis of aid flows remain equally important. In this context, a new research article published in the Indi...
- How can aid be free from corruption?
- ( Transparency International , 2007)
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For aid to be effective it must, in its first instance, be delivered to its intended recipients. Combating corruption, therefore, should be the first action of any aid transaction - in order t...
- Social protection in southern Africa: lessons from 20 case studies
- ( S. Devereux;F. Ellis;P. White / Wahenga, Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme , 2008)
- This series of briefs provides a regional synthesis of findings of 12 thematic studies and 20 individual case studies of social transfer schemes undertaken by the Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Pro...
Ill health, malnutrition and ultra-poverty in Africa: the need for integrated approaches
- ( C., B. Barrett / Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University , 2008)
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Millennium Development Goal number 1 is to halve extreme poverty ($1/day per person) and hunger. Progress toward this goal has been excellent at global level, led by China and India, but largely in...
