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Aid and the Dutch Disease in Low-Income Countries: Informed Diagnoses for Prudent Prognoses

By Mwanza Nkusu

March 1, 2004

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Mwanza Nkusu. Aid and the Dutch Disease in Low-Income Countries: Informed Diagnoses for Prudent Prognoses, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2004) accessed December 22, 2024
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Summary

This paper demonstrates that the Dutch disease need not materialize in low-income countries that can draw on their idle productive capacity to satisfy the aid-induced increased demand. Diagnoses on, and prognoses for, the Dutch disease should take into account country-specific circumstances to avoid ill-advised policies. The paper emphasizes that using public resources inefficiently can be more painful than real exchange rate appreciations, which may not necessarily embody the Dutch disease.

Subject: Aid flows, Dutch disease, Economic theory, Exports, Foreign aid, Human capital, International trade, Labor, Trade balance

Keywords: Aid flows, And Poverty, Appreciation, Core Dutch disease framework, Core Dutch disease theory, Dutch disease, Dutch disease economics, Dutch disease model, Dutch disease-type effect, Economic Growth, Exchange Rate, Exports, Foreign Aid, Human capital, ODA, ODA flow, ODA inflow, RER, RER appreciation, Sub-Saharan Africa, Trade balance, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    19

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2004/049

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0492004

  • ISBN:

    9781451846874

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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