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=== Efforts to end aid dependence === Since 2000, aid dependency has decreased by about β .<ref name="Wijntjes101163">{{Cite journal|editor-first=Marie-JosΓ©|editor-last=Wijntjes|title=Overseas Development Institute (ODI), Resource Libraries|doi=10.1163/1872-9037_afco_asc_1285|journal=African Studies Companion Online}}</ref> This can be seen in countries like [[Ghana]], whose aid dependency decreased from 47% to 27%, as well as in [[Mozambique]], where the aid dependency decreased from 74% to 58%.<ref name="Wijntjes101163" /> Target areas to decrease aid dependence include job creation, regional integration, and commercial engagement and trade.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.brookings.edu/blog/africa-in-focus/2017/04/20/making-africa-great-again-reducing-aid-dependency/|title=Making Africa Great Again: Reducing aid dependency|last=Kwemo|first=Angelle B.|date=2017-04-20|website=Brookings|access-date=2019-11-04}}</ref> Long-term investment in agriculture and infrastructure are key requirements to end aid dependency as it will allow a country to slowly decrease the amount of food aid received and begin to develop its own agricultural economy and solve [[Food security|food insecurity]].
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