Aid is good for the poor (English)

Aid is good for the poor. This paper uses detailed aid data spanning 60 developing countries over the past two decades to show that social aid significantly and directly benefits the poorest in society, while economic aid increases the income of the poor through growth. This new and unequivocal finding distinguishes the current study from past studies that only utilized aggregate aid data and returned ambiguous results. The paper also confirms that...

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Hirano,Yumeka;

Otsubo,Shigeru;
Document Date
2014/08/01
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS6998
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
World,
Region
Other,
Disclosure Date
2014/08/01
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Aid is good for the poor
Keywords
reproductive health and family planning

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Hirano,Yumeka; Otsubo,Shigeru.

Aid is good for the poor (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 6998 Washington, DC: World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/346561468331901142

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