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The chapter presents and discusses research on aid effectiveness and other evidence that can help to understand which purposes aid can be used for, and for which purposes it is less likely that aid can work. Studies of individual interventions, and studies of the aggregate effects of aid are discussed separately. The chapter concludes that aid can potentially be effective for most purposes, but the attempts to transform recipient state institutions, policies and societies is by far the use of aid that is associated with least success.
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© 2014 Øyvind Eggen and Kjell Roland
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Eggen, Ø., Roland, K. (2014). What Can Aid Do?. In: Western Aid at a Crossroads: The End of Paternalism. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137380326_5
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