01606cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF003415 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451861198 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Yontcheva, Boriana. Does Foreign Aid Reduce Poverty? : Empirical Evidence from Nongovernmental and Bilateral Aid / Boriana Yontcheva, Nadia Masud. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2005. 1 online resource (31 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper assesses the effectiveness of foreign aid in reducing poverty through its impact on human development indicators. We use a dataset of both bilateral aid and NGO aid flows. Our results show that NGO aid reduces infant mortality and does so more effectively than official bilateral aid. The impact on illiteracy is less significant. We also test whether foreign aid reduces government efforts in achieving developmental goals and find mixed evidence of a substitution effect. Mode of access: Internet Masud, Nadia. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2005/100 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2005/100/001.2005.issue-100-en.xml IMF e-Library