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Aid To The Poor In Middle Income Countries And The Future Of The International Development Association

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  • RAVI KANBUR

    (Cornell University, USA)

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We are sleep walking into a situation where over the next decade and a half concessional development assistance will disengage from the bulk of the world's poor. This is happening because countries that are graduating into Middle Income status still have large numbers of poor people. This new situation, where three quarters of the world's poor live in Middle Income Countries, raises fundamental questions about the salience of national level achievements in determining global responsibilities towards the poor in each nation. They also raise basic questions for the operational rules of access to concessional development assistance such as that provided by the International Development Association (IDA). This paper set out the issues, and presents a proposal for a new window of IDA which recognizes that poverty persists and development problems remain despite the welcome graduation of many countries to Middle Income status.

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  • Ravi Kanbur, 2012. "Aid To The Poor In Middle Income Countries And The Future Of The International Development Association," Journal of International Commerce, Economics and Policy (JICEP), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 3(02), pages 1-9.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:jicepx:v:03:y:2012:i:02:n:s1793993312500081
    DOI: 10.1142/S1793993312500081
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    Keywords

    Development assistance; International Development Association (IDA); World Bank; poverty; Middle Income Countries (MICs); Low Income Countries (LICs); JEL Classifications: F34; JEL Classifications: F35; JEL Classifications: 019;
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    JEL classification:

    • F34 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Lending and Debt Problems
    • F35 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Foreign Aid

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