... LOW INCOME COUNTRIES: POLICY AND RESOURCE IMPLICATIONS Paper submitted for the G-24 Technical Group Meeting (Washington, D.C. September 27-28 2004) Part 6 Nihal Kappagoda, Research ... the fact that if 20 percent of the allocations from IDA 14 onwards are in the form of grants, without additional grant financing by donors it will reduce the commitment authority by about 7 ... the MDGs. It is more important to increase grant funding as quickly as possible to countries, particularly those in sub-Saharan Africa, to achieve the MDGs by 2015. If these funds are provided...