Aid is a blunt tool for promoting democracy
The ability of foreign aid to improve the behaviour of recipient countries has been seriously questioned
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In this article
- Role of aid
- Boosting economic growth
- Funding public services
- Financing political campaigns
- Increasing international legitimacy
- Aid and popular discontent
- Limited impact of aid withdrawal
- Issue salience
- Strategic considerations
- Sunk costs
- Coordination challenge
- Sovereignty battles
- Outlook
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