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    Pity the Finance Minister: issues in managing a substantial scaling up of aid flows

    International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2005
    This paper is based on the rationale that substantially scaling up of aid flows will require development partners to address many issues, including the impact of higher aid flows on the competitiveness of aid recipients; the management of fiscal and monetary policy; the delivery of public services; behavioral incentives; and the rate of growth of the economy.
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    The macroeconomic challenges of scaling up aid to Africa

    International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2005
    This paper provides a checklist of the macroeconomic challenges that low-income countries are likely to face if they receive significantly higher official assistance than they have received in the recent past.
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    G8 Communique: more and better aid?

    European Network on Debt and Development, 2005
    This brief assesses the G8 Communique of the 2005 summit.
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    The Africa Commission’s ‘big push’

    Overseas Development Institute, 2005
    This paper is critical of the Africa Commision report's tendency to present a rather unrealistic, de-contextualised vision for Africa, that treats the continent as a homogeneous mass and fails to identify clear priorities.
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    Scaling up versus absorptive capacity: challenges opportunities for reaching the MDGs in Africa

    Overseas Development Institute, 2005
    This briefing paper argues that the ‘scaling up’ of aid flows that could materialise in 2005 islikely to run up against ‘absorptive capacity’ constraints, unless these are taken into account from the beginning, and adequately addressed in the design and implementation of improved aid delivery mechanisms. It asks:can poor countries effectively absorb a significant increase in aid flows?
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    Halving poverty by doubling aid: how well founded is the optimism of the World Bank?

    Kiel Institute of World Economics/Institut für Weltwirtschaft, 2002
    This report constitutes a challenge to the effectiveness of the World Bank's strategy of concentrating, and thereby increasing, aid on countries with 'good' policies.The arguments used against the World Bank policy include:an analysis of the inconsistent relationship between economic growth and levels of aid delivery in Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa and South Asia, raises considerabl

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