1. Towards Achieving the MDGs: Addressing Absorptive Capacity Constraints
Francois Bourguignon
Chief Economist and Senior Vice President
The World Bank
Presentation at the ECOSOC High Level Policy Dialogue
The United Nations
March 17,2005

2. Aid absorptiveness

3. Illustration from of the Ethiopia Model (Mams, WB)

4. MDG 1: Share of Population Living on $1 (PPP) per day or less (%)

5. MDG 2: Net Primary School Completion Rate (%)

6. MDG 4: Under-Five Mortality Per 1,000 Live Births

7. Foreign grants necessary to reach the MDGs (US dollar per capita)

8. Real Wage for Workers with Secondary-School Education (Birr)

9. Real exports as a share of GDP

10. Time sequencing of spending and MDG costs (excl. Infrastructure)
No productivity gain
Productivity gain