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Crushed Aid

2010; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1787/218465127786

1815-1949

Emmanuel Frot, Javier Santisó,

Economic Growth and Development

not appear different from non-democratic ones in any sector and poor countries actually have a slightly less fragmented aid allocation.We also offer here some important policy recommendations.As underlined in the paper, the diagnosis of the problem might be the easiest part of the issue.Solving it or helping to solve it is a very different story and any recommendation is offered with a certain amount of humility.The discrepancies across sectors already suggest a more coordinated approach in the donor community to designing a better labour division, with donors focusing on their key partnerships and leaving those where they have little interest.The reform envisaged, already described in Frot ( 2009) at country level, can be replicated with country-sectors.Such a reform would leave aid budgets and receipts unchanged, but it would reshuffle around 20% of current disbursements and would dramatically reduce fragmentation.