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In poor, aid-dependent countries, the likelihood of pro-poor training strategies being introduced will depend very heavily on the policies and practices of their main donor partners. Unless, therefore, donors are prepared to concentrate the bulk of their assistance on poverty reduction as well as change their policies on VET, the prospects for the implementation of pro-poor training strategies are seriously reduced in most of these countries.
Despite formal policy commitments in favour of concentrating aid on the poor, in 1997 only about one-quarter of bilateral aid from European aid donors was allocated to projects and programmes with a direct poverty focus (see ODI, 1998). Equally serious, overall aid flows have been falling fast. OECD countries gave $47.5 billion in 1997, a decline of 7.1 per cent in real terms over 1996. Since 1990, the real value of aid has fallen by nearly 40 per cent. Even primary education, where most donors have made high profile commitments about meeting 'education for all' targets, funding levels have fallen in real terms among the majority of donors (see Bennell, 1998)
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Learning to change: Skills
development among the
economically vulnerable and
socially excluded in
developing countries
Paul Bennell
Employment and Training Department
International Labour Office Geneva
First published 1999
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