CIAO DATE: 02/2012
December 2011
Danish Institute for International Studies
If foreign aid is to have a greater impact on reducing poverty in poor countries in a sustainable manner, then it needs to focus more on economic cooperation and changing productive structures, and to move away from a focus on social sectors and subsidizing the consumption of poor people.
Resource link: What aid should and shouldn't do in order to support private sector development [PDF] - 126K