The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the effectiveness of aid has increased over time, in the light of the contention by Boone (199,. 1996), Dollar and Burnside (1997) and the World Bank (1998) on the issue of the extent to which the impact of aid on investment and growth is...

Improved household accessibility to credit is identified as a significant determinant of intra-household re-allocation of labour resources with important implications for productivity, income, and poverty status. However, credit accessibility could also have wider impacts on poverty if it leads...