Does Aid Availability Affect Effectiveness in Reducing Poverty? A Review Article

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• 作者：Franç ; ois Bourguignon^a ; Jean-Philippe Platteau^b ; ^c
• 关键词：aid effectiveness ; governance ; poverty reduction ; aid allocation
• 刊名：World Development
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：90
• 期：Complete
• 页码：6-16
• 全文大小：381 K
• 卷排序：90

文摘

This paper addresses the impact of aid supply on aid effectiveness. First, we review theoretical literature that deals with the problem of governance in donor–recipient relationships and are susceptible of highlighting effects of aggregate aid availability. Second, we provide a conceptual framework that explicitly incorporates a trade-off between considerations of needs and governance. We examine the impact of aid supply on the manner in which a donor agency allocates the available money between countries differing in terms of both needs and domestic governance. The central conclusion is that a donor’s utility function that embodies the need-governance trade-off and the associated optimization mechanism yield a meaningful rule to guide inter-country allocation of aid resources.