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Finance & Development September 2008 Celasun & Walliser	Managing Aid Surprises Countries cannot make full use of aid when it is unpredictable
Finance & Development September 1, 2005 Sharpe, Wood & Wratten	U.K.: More Country Ownership A country-led approach, in which the governments of developing countries themselves define and lead the poverty reduction agenda, is the key to improving aid effectiveness.
Finance & Development September 1, 2005 Radelet et al.	Aid and Growth Although the impact of aid on economic growth diminishes as aid increases, in countries with stronger institutions or better health, more aid can be absorbed effectively.
IDB America August 2007 Andrew Powell	Tough Love: The Key to Foreign Aid Effectiveness Why is economic aid to allies less effective than aid to countries that are indifferent if not hostile to their donors' foreign policies?
Finance & Development September 1, 2005 Peter S. Heller	Making AID Work An unlikely alliance of rock stars, politicians, and grassroots activists has put the issue of combating poverty at the forefront of global policymaking. Scaling up aid flows is just the start of a complex set of decisions and tough choices.
Finance & Development December 1, 2005 Raghuram Rajan	Aid and Growth: The Policy Challenge The best way to get the poor in low-income countries out of poverty is to strengthen economic growth in those countries. But we need more than aid to break the cycle of poverty.
Finance & Development September 2008 Elaine Venter	Point of View: A Work in Progress The Paris Declaration renews focus on aid reform but is still donor-centric
Finance & Development December 1, 2006 Schieber et al.	Getting Real on Health Financing Unless the efficiency of the global aid architecture is improved and countries enhance their ability to put aid to good use, the massive investment in health that is currently taking place will not deliver the improvement in the health of the poor that everybody is striving for.
Finance & Development September 1, 2005 Eifert & Gelb	Coping with Aid Volatility Aid may become even more unpredictable, but there are ways to tackle the problem. To improve aid predictability, donors must lengthen funding horizons, and the annual review and programming cycle must be strengthened at the country level.
Finance & Development December 1, 2002 Bulir & Lane	Managing the Fiscal Impact of Aid Poor countries must find better ways to manage spending in the face of volatile and unpredictable aid flows.
Finance & Development September 1, 2005 Berg & Qureshi	The MDGs: Building Momentum A big push on aid is not the sole answer. International development policy needs to move beyond aid and aim for actions that, together with stronger reforms in developing countries, cohere into a broader big push.
Finance & Development June 1, 2005 Jamison & Radelet	Making Aid Smarter How donor support for primary education can be made more effective.
Finance & Development March 2006	Letters to the Editor Aid recipients must be more accountable... Why not limit new borrowing?... Redesigning aid...
Finance & Development September 2008 Masood Ahmed	The Next Frontier Low-income countries gain ground in a globalized world, but they still face major challenges.
Finance & Development September 1, 2005 Basil P. Mramba	Tanzania: 'Smart' Partnerships A clear national development vision upon which donor support can be anchored is critical for ensuring that aid is well used.
Finance & Development December 1, 2007 Stefano Curto	Changing Aid Landscape Despite donors' commitments to scale up aid in line with the 2002 Monterrey Consensus and the 2005 Gleneagles Declaration, the response has been mixed.
Finance & Development September 2008	From the Editor With food and oil prices touching record highs and global growth slowing, low-income countries are facing difficulties making it even more critical for advanced economies and other donors to live up to their commitments on aid levels.
Finance & Development September 2007	Letters to the Editor The dark side of aid... Stop misusing PPP calculations... Make antiretroviral drugs available to all...
Finance & Development June 1, 2002 Brian Ames	Taking Stock of Poverty Reduction Efforts What exactly is a poverty reduction strategy paper (PRSP), the centerpiece of the international community's new assault on poverty? It is essentially a road map prepared by countries themselves to help them better target public policies in support of poverty reduction.
Finance & Development September 1, 2005 Bilal Siddiqi	Picture This Aiding Development Chart-based analysis of which countries give the most aid and where the money goes.
Finance & Development September 1, 2005 Jean-Baptiste Compaore	Burkina Faso: Greater Capacity In Burkina Faso, only about 70% of aid committed by donors is effectively disbursed. Improving absorption capacity is crucial if a scaling up of aid is to be effective in growing its economy.
Finance & Development September 2010	Half Empty or Half Full Does aid work? The net impact of aid surges depends on country-specific factors.
Finance & Development June 1, 2002 Peter S. Heller & Sanjeev Gupta	Challenges in Expanding Aid Flows The international community is calling for an increase in foreign development aid to 0.7 percent of industrial country GNP from 0.24 percent of GNP at present. But a large increase in aid flows could pose a number of challenges for the poorest countries.
Finance & Development September 1, 2005 Aiyar et al.	The Macroeconomic Challenge of More Aid Here is an analysis of five African countries that received big increases in aid. Their experiences offer useful lessons on an international level in scaling up aid to well-performing poor countries.
Finance & Development December 1, 2000 Masood Ahmed & Hugh Bredenkamp	Supporting Poverty Reduction in Low-Income Developing Countries: The International Community's Response Despite developing countries' improved economic growth rates during the 1990s, poverty has remained firmly entrenched. How can developing countries, international financial institutions, and developed countries work together more effectively to reduce the incidence of poverty?
Finance & Development December 1, 2005 Maureen Lewis	A War Chest for Fighting HIV/AIDS With billions of dollars mobilized, the challenge is how to spend the money wisely in the fight against the global HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Finance & Development December 1, 2007 David E. Bloom	Governing Global Health How better coordination can advance global health and improve value for money.
Finance & Development September 1, 2005 Daniel Kaufmann	Back to Basics--10 Myths About Governance and Corruption The challenge of governance and anticorruption confronting the world today strongly argues against business-as-usual. A bolder approach is needed. The rich world must not only deliver on its aid and trade liberalization promises, it must also lead by example.
Reason Aug/Sep 2009 Michael C. Moynihan	The Failure of African Aid Western aid to Africa has made poor countries poorer, retarded their economic growth, and entrenched despotic regimes, argues the Zambian-born economist Dambisa Moyo in her new book Dead Aid.
Finance & Development September 2008	Dialogue Box F&D asked a number of opinion leaders around the world to answer the question, What's the single thing most likely to double living standards in poor countries over the next decade?
Finance & Development December 1, 2006 Ambroise Fayolle	Out of the Trap Given that fragile states face urgent and specific needs, the framework created by donors to support them is both too slow and not comprehensive enough. Closer coordination between all actors, including the IMF, should be a priority in fragile states.
Finance & Development June 1, 2000 Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay, & Pablo Zoido-Lobaton	Governance Matters: From Measurement to Action Policymakers generally rely on anecdotal evidence to assess the quality of governance, but this information is often misleading and incomplete....
Finance & Development December 1, 2007	Is the Global Health System Broken Three points of view on how the global health system can be improved: Making Markets Work by Joe Cerrell... Finding a Unified Vision by Helen Gayle and J. Stephen Morrison... Targeting the Health MDGs by Tore Godal...
Finance & Development December 1, 2006 Bio-Tchane & Christensen	Right Time for Africa Africa needs to build on its recent success to catch up. A forward-looking reform agenda should aim to maintain macroeconomic stability, improve the business climate, promote trade, and, most important, strengthen fiscal institutions.
Finance & Development September 1, 2005 Andrews et al.	Ethiopia: Scaling Up Assessing the impact of a dramatic increase in aid on one of Africa's poorest countries.
Salon.com August 7, 2000 Laura Rozen	Bread instead of soldiers On the front lines of war, humanitarian-aid workers do the work of diplomats -- but some say they should stay away from politics.
Finance & Development December 1, 2007 Bio-Tchane & Yehoue	Africa's Missing Ingredients How international economic aid can be better directed to entrench development in sub-Saharan Africa.
Finance & Development June 1, 2005 Birger Fredriksen	Keeping the Promise What is holding up achieving primary education for all African children?
Registered Rep. January 21, 2005 Anne Field	Time Running Out to Apply for College Financial Aid Many parents of college-age children are scrambling to complete their financial aid applications. Financial advisors suggest that clients should apply even it they don't, at first glance, seem to be eligible for aid.
Finance & Development March 1, 2003	Book reviews The Ills of Aid: An Analysis of Third-World Development Policies, by Eberhard Reusse... Efficiency, Equity, and Legitimacy: The Multilateral Trading System at the Millennium... Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East... etc.
Finance & Development September 2009	Book Reviews Books of economic interest: Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa, by Dambisa Moyo... Successes of the International Monetary Fund: Untold Stories of Cooperation at Work, by Michael A. Clemens... more...
Reason October 2005 Ronald Bailey	Data: Aiding and Indebting Despite the push to give to sub-Saharan African economies, evidence that aid boosts economic development is hard to come by.
Finance & Development June 1, 2005 Raghuram Rajan	Straight Talk Debt Relief and Growth In a number of developed countries, debt relief for low-income countries has become an important political issue. Here's how to craft an optimal debt relief proposal.
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HBS Working Knowledge April 20, 2009 Martha Lagace	Misgovernance at the World Bank New research tells why misgovernance at the World Bank should be corrected.
BusinessWeek April 3, 2006 Pete Engardio	Throwing Money -- And Missing The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good by William Easterly is disturbing but essential reading for would-be Samaritans -- and a powerful call for reform.
Parameters	Unintended Alliance: The Co-option of Humanitarian Aid in Conflicts Despite being widely known, the utilization of the humanitarian aid system as a logistical support system for war is one of the most overlooked constituent tactics of modern warfare.