New issue of "Finance & Development"

The September issue of the IMF's quarterly magazine,  Finance & Development, is out.

The focus of this issue is aid and development:

Can more aid really make poverty history as aid campaigners have argued? This issue examines aid effectiveness and how to build momentum toward the Millennium Development Goals after the G8 vowed to double aid to Africa. Includes assessments of use of aid in Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Uganda, as well as viewpoints from Burkina Faso, Tanzania, and the UK. Other articles look at next steps for reform in China, and how trading partners can help each other's growth. Profile of Jagdish Bhagwati and IMF Economic Counsellor Raghuram Rajan examines global financial risk. Also a look at governance and measures to combat corruption.

Comments

[The Eclectic Econoclast]

Not to be tooo cynical, but I wonder whether the IMF has a vested interest in keeping poor countries poor.

Certainly aid has not done much good in most places in the past.