Aid and Growth – Developing Country Experience 1950 – 2005 [Part-II]

As usual on Fridays, a posting based on Raj Nallari and Breda Griffith’s lecture notes.
The 1970s The exhibit below examines growth rates in developed countries, LDCs and Transition countries during 1970 to 2000, identifying seven periods of decelerating growth.   First, the oil price shocks in 1973 and 1979 adversely affected oil-importing nations as an increasing proportion of [...]

The Smell of Poverty

I already blogged about the latest UNDP Human Development Report on water and poverty, but I can’t help mentioning it again after reading Mario Vargas Llosa’s comment on the report.
For our Spanish-speaking audience, “El olor de la pobreza” (the smell of poverty) is an excellent read. His article, peppered with literary quotes, is as poignant [...]

Promoting Pro-poor Growth: Policy Guidance for Donors

Why has growth been more successful in reducing poverty in some countries than in others? How can poor women and men best participate in, contribute to and benefit from growth? What can donors do to promote a pattern of growth that better connects poor people to the growth process and to help deal with the [...]

Muhammad Yunus’ Nobel Lecture

Muhammad Yunus gave his Nobel Lecture in Oslo yesterday.
We get what we want, or what we don’t refuse. We accept the fact that we will always have poor people around us, and that poverty is part of human destiny. This is precisely why we continue to have poor people around us. If we firmly believe [...]

Aid and Growth – Developing Country Experience 1950 – 2005 [Part-I]

Like every Friday, from Raj Nallari and Breda Griffith’s lecture notes.
In general, the relationship between aid and growth has had a mixed track record over the five decades from 1950. The commitment of rich countries to help their poorer counterparts took off in the post-war era and while that commitment has remained it has been [...]

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G. Moheyuddin