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Analysis: Mali’s aid problem

Article referring to WIDER Working Paper 2012/061 Foreign Aid in Dangerous Places: The donors and Mali’s democracy by Nicolas van de Walle.

"At best, aid to Mali has been ineffective from an economic or institutional development perspective, enabling corruption, undermining the government’s will and ability to raise revenue through productive means or taxation, and insulating it from accountability to the population, according to analysts and observers. At worst, these conditions directly led to the conflict in the north and political crisis in Bamako."

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Analysis: Mali’s aid problem