Departmental Papers

Enhancing Development Assistance to Africa: Lessons from Scaling-Up Scenarios

ByMatthew Gaertner, Laure Redifer, Pedro Conceição, Rafael A Portillo, Luis-Felipe Zanna, Jan Gottschalk, Andrew Berg, Ayodele F. Odusola, Brett E. House, José Saúl Lizondo

March 8, 2012

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Matthew Gaertner, Laure Redifer, Pedro Conceição, Rafael A Portillo, Luis-Felipe Zanna, Jan Gottschalk, Andrew Berg, Ayodele F. Odusola, Brett E. House, and José Saúl Lizondo. "Enhancing Development Assistance to Africa: Lessons from Scaling-Up Scenarios", Departmental Papers 2012, 002 (2012), accessed 12/6/2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781616352370.087

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Summary

The pace of progress toward achievement of the Millenium Development Goals (MDG) in many sub-Saharan African countries remains too slow to reach targets by 2015, despite significant progress in the late 1990s. The MDG Africa Steering Group, convened in September 2007 by the UN Secretary-General, designated 10 countries for pilot studies to investigate how existing national development plans would be impacted by scaled up development aid to Africa. This joint publication of the IMF and the United Nations Development Programme reports conclusions drawn from these pilot studies and summarizes country-specific results for Benin, the Central African Republic, Ghana, Liberia, Niger, Rwanda, Tanzania, Togo, Sierra Leone, and Zambia.

Subject: Expenditure, Foreign exchange, Health, Infrastructure, National accounts, Public financial management (PFM), Public investment spending, Real exchange rates

Keywords: Africa, appreciation, country, development aid, DP, DPPP, Dutch disease, exchange rate appreciation, Gleneagles commitment, Global, government, government spending, inflation, Infrastructure, investment, monetary policy, private sector, Public investment spending, Real exchange rates, spending, Sub-Saharan Africa

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