Aid Effectiveness and Decentralized Development

Professor Jean-Philippe Platteau has prepared a challenging and interesting paper for the Afd/EUDN conference (Platteau, 2003). Written in his particular style where empirical observations from all over the developing world and theory are blended in an intricate manner, it takes a micro-perspective on the question of how to improve the effectiveness of foreign aid. This is a welcome approach. After all, poverty is in large measure a micro-economic phenomenon,

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