Add to ORKGAfrica has stagnated despite receiving considerable international aid. I suggest that the most reasonable counterfactual is that without aid Africa would have declined, so that aid has been helpful in averting disaster, although lacking the power to achieve decisive change. Based on a diagnosis of the reasons for past stagnation, I propose five unexploited opportunities for aid better to complement internal African efforts at transformation
In the new millennium, the Western aid effort towards Africa has surged due to writings by well-know...
The growing economic gap between countries in the global south and the global north has dominated in...
This paper considers whether Africa can absorb a doubling of aid. If oil revenues provide a "natural...
Africa has stagnated despite receiving considerable international aid. I suggest that the most reaso...
Over the past 40 years Africa has stagnated while other developing countries have grasped growth opp...
We address the poverty trap rationale for aid to Africa. We calibrate models that embody typical exp...
AbstractIn a world that is developing fast, Africa's relative stagnation is a human tragedy that cha...
In a world that is developing fast, Africa¿s relative stagnation is a human tragedy that challenges ...
Africa is the only substantial low-income part of the world that has persistently failed to grow. Ov...
While the last half century gave rise to over a dozen developing nations whose economic expansion su...
With nearly 60 million Africans at risk of falling into poverty, Covid-19-induced shocks have demons...
"An extract from a presentation made to the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, Engl...
The implicit assumption of the donor community is that Africa is trapped by its poverty, and that ai...
More than $2.3 trillion labeled as development aid has flowed into the African continent over the pa...
The dawning of the 21st century generally brought new hope to African leaders and countless thousand...
In the new millennium, the Western aid effort towards Africa has surged due to writings by well-know...
The growing economic gap between countries in the global south and the global north has dominated in...
This paper considers whether Africa can absorb a doubling of aid. If oil revenues provide a "natural...
Africa has stagnated despite receiving considerable international aid. I suggest that the most reaso...
Over the past 40 years Africa has stagnated while other developing countries have grasped growth opp...
We address the poverty trap rationale for aid to Africa. We calibrate models that embody typical exp...
AbstractIn a world that is developing fast, Africa's relative stagnation is a human tragedy that cha...
In a world that is developing fast, Africa¿s relative stagnation is a human tragedy that challenges ...
Africa is the only substantial low-income part of the world that has persistently failed to grow. Ov...
While the last half century gave rise to over a dozen developing nations whose economic expansion su...
With nearly 60 million Africans at risk of falling into poverty, Covid-19-induced shocks have demons...
"An extract from a presentation made to the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, Engl...
The implicit assumption of the donor community is that Africa is trapped by its poverty, and that ai...
More than $2.3 trillion labeled as development aid has flowed into the African continent over the pa...
The dawning of the 21st century generally brought new hope to African leaders and countless thousand...
In the new millennium, the Western aid effort towards Africa has surged due to writings by well-know...
The growing economic gap between countries in the global south and the global north has dominated in...
This paper considers whether Africa can absorb a doubling of aid. If oil revenues provide a "natural...