Poverty and recovery: The history of aid and development in East Africa

Economic Affairs

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 27-33

  Erixon, Fredrik ^a  

^a Swedish Think Tank Timbro ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AID POLICY; ECONOMIC IMPACT; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; POVERTY;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 0348170857     PISSN: 02650665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0270.2003.00440.x     Document Type: Article

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3. Shantayanan Devarajan, William Easterly and Howard Pack (2002) 'Low Investment is Not the Constraint on African Development,' Working Paper 13, Center for Global Development, Washington, DC.
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9. Stephen Knack (2001) 'Aid Dependence and the Quality of Governance: Cross-country Empirical Tests,' Southern Economic Journal, 68, 2, 310-329.
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