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If appropriate aid exit strategies are to be devised, it is necessary to understand, first, what the binding constraints to development are on country-by-country and sector-by-sector basis. This requires, of course, an understanding about the basis of the economy/political-economy in each country case-study.
Such an analysis of binding constraints should ascertain answers to the following sets of factors:
Reputational: Depend on change and communication
Substantive and common:
- Domestic and crossborder infrastructure
- better skills and education programmes
- institutional capacity development
- macro-economic policy fundamentals
- human security
- better governance, democracy – accountability and transparency
- facilitative attitude to entrepreneurship and business
What are those constraints inhibiting economic growth-in each country, leading to more widespread employment and effective poverty reduction?
A second aspect to further analysis (part-and-parcel of the studies above) would then be to examine the ‘how’ question – how aid might better be expended in terms of the:
- Relationship with private sector
- PPS – esp. in infrastructure
- NGOs – foreign and local
- Budget support
- Trade access – or trade facilitation capacity
- Technology facilitation
- Institutional relationship with recipients; and institutional
structure of donors