The Reality of Aid 2000: An independent review of poverty reduction and development assistance

NOW IN ITS SEVENTH ANNUAL EDITION,

The Reality of Aid 2000 looks at how the performance of OECD donor countries on aid and development cooperation has matched up to the challenge of eliminating absolute poverty.

The report charts some improvements at the level of donor policy and rhetoric. But its stark conclusion is that the potential of aid to combat poverty is constantly undermined by governments, both North and South, who fail to address the extreme inequalities of income and the structur...