Changes were only made to the Executive Summary to clarify the concepts of compatible and complementary policies. ABSTRACT The working paper " Binding Constraints to Trade Expansion: Aid for Trade Objectives and Diagnostics Tools " [OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 94] showed that the most common objectives of Aid for Trade have the potential to boost economic growth. However, this growth po...

With serious impacts of climate change looming in a few decades, but current poverty still high in the developing world, we ask how to spend development aid earmarked for the poor. Poverty reduction tends to be strongly linked to economic growth, but growth impacts the environment and increases CO2 emissions. So can greener growth that is more climate-resilient and less environmentally damaging...

This article examines the relationship between humanitarian aid and ecologically unequal exchange in the context of post-disaster reconstruction. I assess the manner in which humanitarian aid became a central part of the reconstruction process in India's Tamil Nadu state following the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. This article focuses on how the humanitarian “gift” of housing became a ...

1. Increasing Economic and Social Disparity 2. Globalization, Disparities, and Sustainability 3. Overview of Economic Policies for Narrowing Disparities 3.1. Taxation 3.2. Social Expenditure 3.3. Labor Market Policy 3.4. Monetary Policy and Macroeconomic Policy 3.5. Institutional Systems 4. Obstacles for Governments to Overcome 5. Global Efforts for Poverty Reduction: World Bank Strategic Shift...

The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa and is one of the most biologically and culturally diverse countries on the continent. With a population of about 92 million, Ethiopia is the second most populous country in Sub-Saharan Africa. Despite being one of the poorest countries, with a per capita income of US$454 (substantially lower than the regi...

Virtually all previous studies of domestic economic redistribution find white Americans to be less enthusiastic about welfare for black recipients than for white recipients. When it comes to foreign aid and international redistribution across racial lines, I argue that prejudice manifests not in an uncharitable, resentful way but in a paternalistic way because intergroup contact is minimal and ...

The paper examines the relationship between foreign aid and savings using annual data for 119 countries. Regressions for each country are run separately in order to find which countries have a positive aid-saving experience. The explanatory variables chosen are thought to be exogenous to current economic policy. Countries are placed into five categories according to the strength of the aid-savi...

This paper studies the aid allocation rule used by major development agencies, and investigates optimal allocations when recipients are neoclassical economies undergoing transition dynamics. When recipients face aid absorption constraints, allocations that favor poorer recipients are not always optimal, contrary to what is assumed in assessments of donor performance. The most quantitatively sig...

Foreign aid has become a very important source of government revenue for many countries in the world. The academia and policy communities are interested in whether foreign aid has done what it is supposed to do. The aid literature has paid special attention to foreign aid’s effects, if any, on poverty reduction, economic growth, human capital accumulation, to name but a few. One often overlooke...