Why Is Africa Constrained from Spending ODA?

Author: Terry McKinley
Thematic Area: Social Protection

Abstract:Attaining the MDGs in sub-Saharan Africa calls for a dramatic scaling up of Official Development Assistance. Yet governments have been constrained from spending the bulk of aid received in recent years. If aid cannot be spent, donors might ask: why give it? A better question is: what is preventing the spending? (...)

Keywords:Poverty, Africa, ODA
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Type/Issue:One Pager/34
ISSN:2318-9118

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