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What Does Aid to Africa Finance ? 1970-1996 (Burkina Faso, Botswana, Cameroon, Congo, Dem. Rep., Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mauritius, Malawi, Nigeria, Sudan, Eswa...)

author(s) Shantayanan Devarajan, Andrew Sunil Rajkumar and Vinaya Swaroop (World Bank)
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themes
regions
  • Northern Africa
  • Africa
  • World
  • Western Africa
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Eastern Africa
  • Southern Africa
  • Middle Africa
citation

Shantayanan Devarajan, Andrew Sunil Rajkumar and Vinaya Swaroop (World Bank), 'What Does Aid to Africa Finance ? 1970-1996 (Burkina Faso, Botswana, Cameroon, Congo, Dem. Rep., Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mauritius, Malawi, Nigeria, Sudan, Eswa...)', 2010

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Abstract

If a donor gives aid for a project that the recipient government would have undertaken anyway, then the aid is financing some expenditure other than the intended project. The notion that aid in this sense may be "fungible," while long recognized, has recently been receiving some empirical support. The paper "What Does Aid to Africa Finance?" focuses on Sub-Saharan Africa—the region with the largest GDP share of aid—and presents results that indicate that aid may be partially fungible, and suggests some reasons why.

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