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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Jha, Shikha |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Foreign aid to India: what does it finance? |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
1999 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
p.1142-146 |
| 362 ## - DATES OF PUBLICATION AND/OR SEQUENTIAL DESIGNATION |
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| Dates of publication and/or sequential designation |
8 May |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
This article shows that foreign aid to India merely substitutes for spending that the government would have undertaken anyway; the funds freed by earmarked aid are spent elsewhere. Moreover, in passing external assistance earmarked for the states, the central government makes a reduction in transfers it would have otherwise made to the states. From the country's perspective these fungibility results could be good; domestic spending priorities - inter-sectoral and inter-regional - are unaffected by foreign aid. For the donors, however, the results indicate that success of their projects, as measured by the conventional benefit-cost analysis, does not tell the whole story; the marginal use of their money and its overall development impact could be different from that intended. - Reproduced |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Foreign aid - India |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Foreign aid |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Swaroop, Vinaya |
| 773 ## - HOST ITEM ENTRY |
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| Main entry heading |
Economic and Political Weekly |
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