Gains in Aid for Poor Nations Fuel Talk of 'Dutch Disease'

Written by Jill Moss
24 July 2005

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But there is a danger when nations receive too much money, too fast.  There is even a name for it: "Dutch disease."  Finance and Development, a magazine of the International Monetary Fund, defined the term as "too much wealth managed unwisely."


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