Questions about the Does Aid Work? poster

What’s on the Does Aid Work? poster?

Strong evidence against Weak or contested, side by side. Strong evidence: Vaccination and disease control; Strong evidence: Bed nets against malaria; Strong evidence: Deworming, though effect size is debated; Strong evidence: Cash transfers to households; Strong evidence: Specific infrastructure with clear demand; Weak or contested: Aggregate aid raising growth rates; Weak or contested: Large donor-designed projects; Weak or contested: Aid conditional on policy reform; Weak or contested: Technical assistance without local demand; Weak or contested: Programmes without an evaluation design; The shift toward randomised evaluation came from precisely this gap between confident…. Educational reference. Aid effectiveness is contested; findings vary greatly by intervention, context and time horizon.

Who is the Does Aid Work? poster for?

Does Aid Work? belongs to the Economics section rather than to a school year, because business is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning development can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Does Aid Work? poster?

Specific, measurable interventions have strong evidence. Aggregate aid-to-growth links are weak. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Does Aid Work? belongs on the wall where that business work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Does Aid Work??

Poverty Traps, Climate & Development and Education & Development sit alongside Does Aid Work? in the Economics section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Poverty TrapsClimate & DevelopmentEducation & Development

Is the Does Aid Work? poster free to download and print?

Yes. Does Aid Work? downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Economics section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Does Aid Work? poster print at?

Does Aid Work? is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Does Aid Work? loses nothing.Printing guide